Thank you, Moses. I'll try to find your advice in the archives.

Sadly, all of my reblooming roses are affected, both in the front and back areas of our house, older as well as modern varieties. I showed only a sample here. From top down:

1. Reine des Violettes

2. Mary Rose

3. Marchesa Bocella (my beloved Marchesa!!! my first rose in this garden)

Of these, only Mary Rose is grafted (bought in its David Austin pot with the DA official tag at our local nursery) and the other two used to be perfectly healthy own-root roses from ARE.

Since DAs tend to be prone to RRD, here is that same damage on the grafted Munstead Wood:

And on my grafted Mary Rose:

But it's the same type of damage on all other, non-DA, own-root roses as well... They looked perfectly healthy before my trip with lots of new growth and buds, and now this. I am totally crushed.

It looks like midge damage to me. I am having the wrost rose midge season this year. Hundreds and hundreds of my roses without blooms. I am behind on midge treatment.

I'm sorry to hear it, summers. I am still a relative newbie, with only four years of rose-growing experience and way less roses than what you have. It must be heart-breaking. It surely is for me.

I've just now found Moses' post about rose midge. I do have the question about the Bayer Advanced product. Bayer has several insect killers and sometimes also changing their formulations while retaining the same/similar product name. What chemical ingredient is effective in fighting rose midge flies? Is it iImidacloprid?

Just recently JBs were gone and now this. I tried to stay away from chemicals, but at this point it's either their careful and responsible use or no roses at all (sob).

I will write you a p.m. in a bit.

I can't help but just want to say how sorry I am for all of you who have this problem. To come back from vacation, vesfl, to a non-blooming garden when everything was fine before has to be a major bummer. I hope you find some kind of solution to what seems to be a really nasty problem.

I'm so sorry vesfl but yes that does look like it could be rose midge damage!

Vesfl,

Going by the further information you provided it is sounding more like midge fly damage, especially with how extensive it is. It's very unlikely RRV hit all your roses at once, but midge fly certainly does. Still, keep a lookout at any RRV looking growth/foliage.

Imidacloprid is the systemic midge maggot killer.

My niece whose husband is an organic food proponent, caused her to resist using the Bayer product with imidacloprid, and opted for Monterey Garden Insect Spray with spinosad. Either she did not apply it correctly or its effectiveness is poor for midge fly control, I do not know. I cannot truthfully recommend it. I do know that the Bayer, imidacloprid does work for me the way I spray it, so so I will stick with it, and recommend it.

Moses.

I’m leaning more towards chili thrips. But keep an eye on that heavily thorned area like Moses mentioned.

Does the SFL part of VESFL stand for South Florida? Somehow I thought you were in Michigan! Although, that looks like midge to me, chili thrips presents in a similar fashion. Hopefully, someone from Fl. can pipe in for a better ID. I don't think we have them up north.

Vap, oh sorry for the confusion. I'm embarrassed to say but "fl" stands for "flower" because I like flowers :-) I am in Western New York, zone 5a/6b.

Thank you all for the kind words of advice and support! Patty, I'll keep an eye on those thorned areas and hope it's not also chili thrips.

I'm pretty sure Chilli thrips don't travel that far north so it looks like you're stuck with Midge

I've just now changed my profile name to include my location. Had it not been for your question about my location, Vap, I wouldn't have known that Houzz has removed this information from our pages. I don't understand why... on their pages, some people were sharing the list of roses they grow or any other information they liked us to know about them. What a shame that it's all gone now. It looks like the Houzz eliminated it all from profile pages.

G I didn't know that it been removed as well. I guess I better go check mine.

Forget the chili thrips then. Sorry but it does looked as though your stuck with mI’d be. Guilty as charged I was assuming fl stood for Florida.

Vaporvac it is a good thing you ask questions.