Confirmed: Sawfly Larvae on Disneyland Roses. Treatments and Planning - December 2023
Earlier this growing season, I discovered that most of our Disneyland Roses were having their foliage destroyed by someone or something. The leaves were spotted and some of them were eaten-up and looked like lace. Here's a post from June 2023 that shows one of those eaten-up leaves . I applied a granular fertilizer all season - starting in early Spring - and I wasn't sure if the foliage damage was a result of the granules clinging to wet leaves, but it seemed far-fetched. The foliage-eating continued all season, but by July, I decided to take some action and switched from just straight Rose Fertilizer to a 2-in-1 feed and care product from BioAdvance . My hunch was that SOMETHING was eating the leaves and the 2-in-1 is a 'systemic' product. That means it isn't something that takes root immediately and eliminates the pests. Rather, it feeds the roses and - via the roots - takes up the insecticide and carries it to all the plant material. I've used a simi