Here is the question of a user:how to get rid of cetonia aureus?
Oh the naughty…
Be careful, she attacks hard! Light colored flowers attract rose chafer or rose chafer. The result is the same, the insect nibbles the flower from all sides. Farewell, rose, peony, iris… and other spring or summer flowers.
There are several ways to get rid of rose chafer. Manual picking up in the evening is still what we do best. When the sun passes below the horizon line, the cetonia is full of pollen and or nectar, it is easily caught. You bring a seal with a lid (box, jar…) and you pick it up and sometimes rummage in the hollow of the flowers, because the ugly one is hiding! Then spraying with an insect repellent fern manure prevents the arrival of new critters.
But the larvae you sometimes see in your compost, big, sleepy grubs, are definitely the next generation. As long as the white grub is in its compost, busy munching on trash, no problem, as long as it stays in the compost heap (compost is a heap of benefits by the way)! And that the adult does not see the light of day... You see what you have to do. If the large white worms in the compost is an advantage, in the vegetable garden or flower beds, it is less safe! And the adult beetle convinces your beautiful flowers of the opposite! You will have to practice several pick-ups, but with patience, you will manage to have what is called an acceptable threshold, that is to say a tolerable number of ketones.
Good harvest of green beetles, but beware, the animal has wings that it knows how to use!
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