They are munchers who can strip a plant over night. They are specific to different plants such as rose or gooseberry or (John’s) berberis or (in our case) solomon’s seal. They leave the tough veins, all that remains is a skeleton. Sounds like the script for a horror story!
Well at least all yours are in one place! My berberis sawflies (or is it sawcaterpillars) have munched happily through half of an 18 foot hedge (of berberis) whilst I was otherwise engaged!
I managed to remember to check this year so got the buggers before much damage was done. I learned today though that gooseberry sawfly attacks red currants too. That’s not something I needed.
I thought the same, would make a delicious meal for someone. So Christopher (the bosses son) picked them off and gave them to the chickens who turned their beaks up at the very thought! Foiled again 🙂
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Pretty ugly unless you are a sawfly. BTW what is a sawfly?
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They are munchers who can strip a plant over night. They are specific to different plants such as rose or gooseberry or (John’s) berberis or (in our case) solomon’s seal. They leave the tough veins, all that remains is a skeleton. Sounds like the script for a horror story!
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Well at least all yours are in one place! My berberis sawflies (or is it sawcaterpillars) have munched happily through half of an 18 foot hedge (of berberis) whilst I was otherwise engaged!
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Oops! Your plight is far far worse. Bet they left the spines behind. Perhaps we should call them sawcats?!
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Yuk!
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eeeew!
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That’s truly disgusting!
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And that was just one leaf!
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I managed to remember to check this year so got the buggers before much damage was done. I learned today though that gooseberry sawfly attacks red currants too. That’s not something I needed.
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Well done, nothing on the fruit yet, although I didn’t check today ……. oh dear, hope the Solomon’s Seal ones weren’t a decoy!
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That’s what I wanted to say Mrs. Daffodil – Uhhh!!!
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🙂 Nightmare!
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Does anything eat sawfly? They look pretty juicy to the right predator.
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I thought the same, would make a delicious meal for someone. So Christopher (the bosses son) picked them off and gave them to the chickens who turned their beaks up at the very thought! Foiled again 🙂
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Yikes!
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Indeed!
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