25-08-2020, 09:56 AM
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.
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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.
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.
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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.