About the time the leaf destroying worms come on, the fish in my pond are pretty hungry, so I pick off a handful of worms and feed the fish. They really love the fresh meat! Jostaberry, and Swiss Blackcurrant have zero worm damage, but the gooseberries pretty much all get hit. I wonder if little bantam chickens would eat the worms and leave the berries alone. Anyone have ideas about that?

bumblebeez, if you can post good close-up pictures of what ate your mock orange(s) I can probably tell you whether indeed you have a sawfly problem or not. If you do, like gardenmanya & jim1961 I think you probably have a problem with a sawfly species that does not eat roses. There are numerous species of sawflies, and they all have their own particular plant hosts upon which their larvae feed. (I identify insects for a living, and while sawfly larvae do resemble caterpillars, there are some visible differences. Those differences show up a lot better in good close-up photos.)

thank you all for your kind words. And on another rose-y note...because of the wet May we have had, the men that come to do the annual weed whacking and brush cutting haven't been able to get here. And the old hill side, all full of oak and white pine shoots/saplings, puckerbrush, escaped Canterbury Bells, wild strawberries and who knows what else - the mild winter or whatever allowed some of the roses that were planted fifteen to twenty years ago and mostly forgotten are poking through! There were enough Celsiana to cut and bring in, plus a rugosa hybrid, Apart, plus something pink that couldn't be, shouldn't be, but might be Reine Victoria, buds not open yet but that was the only other pink one I remember. The gifts of this weird New England winter that wasn't, then May behaving like April...

Your red rose is Dr. Huey, a rose used as a rootstock for other roses. It is a once-blooming (in the spring) climber. We do prune once-bloomers right after they bloom, because next year's blooms come on this year's new growth. The original rose has died back and Dr. Huey "suckered" or started growing on its own. Once this happens, if the canes of Huey aren't removed promptly, Huey takes over and the grafted variety is no more. Would need a photo of your pink rose, nothing is coming to mind at the moment. Here is a link that might be useful: Dr. Huey photos at Helpmefind.com