Please help me ID this insect that’s eating my roses

3 years ago

I think I finally found whats been eating all my rose leaves and buds other than the sawfly larvae! Found this on my most severely affected rose:

Does anyone know what it’s called? Any particular ways to effectively get rid of them? Many thanks!!!

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BlueberryBundtcake - 6a/5b MA
3 years ago
It's a harvestman. They're generally more known for eating insects not plants ...

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Minshen (8b/9a Victoria BC)
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3 years ago
Oh.... Then I might have caught the wrong guy :P Maybe it was just the sawfly larvae after all!
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Flea beetles constitute a subfamily within a big family of beetle pests collectively known as "leaf beetles". It's difficult for me to say for sure, but I doubt alisande's beetles are flea beetles. Flea beetles always have unusually thickened hind femurs (the long leg segment just emerging from under the body. It's difficult to be sure because the image is blurred, but the only hind femur I can make out (on the male, the one that is mounting) doesn't appear to be thickened. I can see enough other features that, while I'm not certain of this either, I suspect the beetles are indeed leaf beetles (but from some other subfamily than the flea beetle subfamily).
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Also, check out Sawflies. The maggots or larvae are the creatures responsible for eating away all the soft parts in tree leaves. Leaving a delicate leaf skeleton behind. I think they are really a type of wasp but they might be an actual fly which is a completely different group of insects.
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rifis (zone 6b-7a NJ)
3 years ago
What do you mean by caught” ?
Minshen (8b/9a Victoria BC)
Original Author
3 years ago
I saw it crawling on the leaves of this rose and my first thought was that it was eating... haha
CeresMer Zone 7a NJ
3 years ago
Looks like sawfly damage. hope this little guy will help you out. I’m losing my battle against the sawfly, I tried neem oil but every day I find more and more on the roses. I squish what I can 😩
Minshen (8b/9a Victoria BC)
Original Author
3 years ago
CeresMer, I hear you. This year is somehow particularly bad. I even started to spray insecticide which I never did before, and still they find ways to do some damage (but the spray did help to some extent). The thing is, I was never able to actually see them!! I see some aphids, yes, but never any other insects (apart from bees and ladybugs of course) on my roses. So when I saw this poor guy, I instinctively thought he was the culprit! Lol.
rosecanadian
3 years ago
What a COOL bug!!!

Good luck everyone with your insect problems. :(
HU-895808949
10 months ago
Likely a Daddy Long Leg spider, a good guy. But I think you already figured that out already haha

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