Beware Of The Pollen Beetle!

[Tilly2]

Yesterday an elderly friend gave me a huge bunch of sweet peas from his allotment. They were beautiful and the perfume was wonderful. I brought them home and placed them in a vase and put them in the front window.

This morning, when I got up and opened the curtains, the white window frames were covered in tiny black pollen beetles. I had forgotten that sweet peas were a haven for these little creatures.

I managed to get rid of most of them but they are still lurking around.

So....beware.

[askyourgran]

I've never heard of them before, my neighbour has grown some lovely sweet peas and put some in a vase in her conservatory.
A couple of years ago I found a lovely coral coloured beetle on my tub of Oriental lillies, they looked lovely..so exotic til I found out that these LILY beetles can strip the plants to nothing in a short time. I was advised to pick them all off and kill them.

[Tilly2]

I'll do that next time, divebuddy.

AYG, I have lily beetles too. Lovely things but a real pest.

[seekeerz]

Lucky you, Tilly...my sweet peas haven't even got out of the starting gates this year, no idea what we did wrong, but nothing germinated !! Grrr.

[Tilly2]

Well, seekerz, I won't go on about how lovely they are then. x

[Tilly2]

extra 'e' here. Sorry.

[seekeerz]

Lol, Tilly xx. Actually, thinking about it, I don't think we get pollen beetles here in Oz, I've never noticed if we do.

[Tilly2]

That's alright then, seekeerz. I bet you have other creepy crawlies that we don't get, though. Like kangaroos.