Geranium Bronze Butterfly/Brun des Pélargoniums
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Another pretty pest - Geranium Bronze Butterfly/Brun des Pélargoniums! 

This beauty is a South African native and a pest of pelargoniums - the female lays her eggs in the flower buds and the caterpillars eat them, so although the plant is fine we don't get any flowers. No red gernaium flowers in France? c'est une catastrophe !

I'm overwintering and taking cuttings of my own plants rather than buying in any more to try and limit the population.

          

I found this interesting article about their arrival and likely survival in the UK HERE but I thnk we are proabably stuck with them down here.
Has Anyone Seen the Plot?

Hautes-Pyrénées (65), France
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Thanks PP. Not heard of that one before - not sure I want to see them in the flesh either.
One to watch out for!
The Moneyless Chicken says:- 
Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.
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