When I look at my roses in the garden
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Perhaps because it was unusually warm in March, I feel that insects have become active earlier than usual this year. I thought I would have very little trouble with insects until the spring roses were over, but in the last few days, I've seen a lot of insects busy working, eating and wandering around looking for something in my garden.
I found some new rose buds damaged, so I looked closely near them and found rose weevils. I picked some up with tweezers, but some noticed me, fell off and ran away. How annoying! Don't feed on my roses. Next time I will have a saucer in case they fall.
There was a ladybird moving on a thick branch of a climbing rose. I like you! Don't go anywhere else, Ladybird, eat all the aphids here!
Oh my goodness! (I really felt like that!) A paper wasp was beginning to build her nest. I should have been more careful as I had recently seen the wasps flying around with their long legs hanging loosely. However, this may be natural as I don't use pesticides or the popular wood vinegar. The wasps seem to build a new nest in the same place every year.
I'm grateful to you, Queen, for your help in catching caterpillars. But the garden you’re in is so small that your nest will be a problem. I must find a way to stop her nesting.
There were some holes in the leaves of a rose. I cut off one of the leaves with scissors, looked at the back and found a mysterious little black caterpillar. Every year I see sawfly larvae feeding on rose leaves, but this doesn't look like them. Who are you?
I also found a large family of aphids! I used tape to remove them from the rose buds, but some fell off. I hope I can keep their numbers down. Where are you, Ladybird? Please keep eating.
I love growing roses. But I don't want to have anything to do with insects. Even so, I don't want to use too much pesticide. (If I can't help it, I might use a little.) So there's no choice but to keep getting rid of them with tweezers and sticky tape.
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