Help! Something is eating my the leaves on my roses. They leave a c like bite.?

Answer 1

an old wives tail but a good one....spray ur roses with 1/2 full cream milk and 1/2 water gets rid of any diseases on my roses

Answer 2

There's several pests that can be eating your rose leaves.
Leaf-Cutter Bees use the leaf cuttings to build its nest. Chemical controls are not necessary as they do not harm the plant and are rarely more than a minor nuisance.

Pear slugs are the larvae of the sawfly. They eat holes in your rose leaves from the undersides. Slugs can do a lot of damage in a short amount of time, so act quickly. Galic spray is great for getting rid of slugs, cutworms, wireworms, & whiteflies. Blend well 1garlic bulb & 1 onion add 1Tbsp cayenne pepper & 1 quart water. Steep ingredients for 1 hr, then strain & add 1 Tbsp dish soap and your non-toxic spray is ready to use.
Long-term prevention & deterrants for slugs: Spread coffee grounds( in moderation) around base of bush. Use repellent mulches: Wormwood, prostrate rosemary, basil, rue, hot pepper, acacia bark, and oak leaves are disliked by snails and make good repellent mulches. Wormwood is also effective as a spray. Use barriers with scratchy material, hydrated lime, wood ash, sharp sand, crushed egg shells, or diatamaceous earth.

Japanese beetle also eat leaves. They lay eggs on your lawn and around your roses and return year after year. You can use a neem-based product to get rid of them or you can position a bowl filled with dish soap and water under the rose and tap lightly. They should fall out and drown in the solution. This procedure seems to be most effective in the morning or evening when the beetles are resting. Another procedure is to spray infected plants with a mixture of 1 tablespoon isopropyl alcohol to a pint of pyrethrin mixture every 3 to 5 days. Long-term prevention for Japanese Beetles is simular to that used to kill the Rose chafer larvae... biological controls such as beneficial nematodes or a product called "milky spore."

Earwigs are a large and soft-bodied yellowish-brown insect with a pair of curved pincers. They hide during the day and come out at night to climb into your rose blooms and feed. Traps such as corrugated cardboard; rolled up newspapers; small cans with openings punctured in the ends can be collected in the morning & the earwigs disposed of.

Caterpillars, the larvae of moths and butterflies can be picked off & discarded. Or sprinkle with flour when the plant is wet & they'll become coated with flour, suffocate & fall off the plant.

Good luck! Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Could be one of three insects. Japanese beetle, Caterpillar, or a leaf cutter bee which would be my guess. I have leaf cutters carving half circles or C shapes on the edges of my roses leaves all the time.
Introduction to the leaf cutter bee.
http://crawford.tardigrade.net/bugs/BugofMonth23.html

Your rose should live through it.

Answer 4

well you can go to warehouses and find out information . What my dad does is goes to the warehouse and buys sprays and cemiclas and stuff .. and when he did it there where no mroe bites on the roses but it took time soo yeah

Answer 5

they might be aphids there is simple insectaside(sorry I can't spell) at any garden store even walmart. And if that disn't work you can use the old farmers trick of taking a disposable pie plate(tin/foil) and putting a little beer in it the bugs will get drunk so they cant get out and then die from the sun reflecting on the metalic surface.

Answer 6

Could be mason bees. They are harmless little bees that build their homes in wood. They carry those round snippets of your roses to the nest.

Answer 7

the thing that is eating your rose leaves is a catipiller..it starts with a C and i get catipiller bites in my leaves to...you just have to watch them eat it!

Answer 8

That is a leaf-cutter bee..it just likes to do that .No problem.

Answer 9

You nee to get some ladybugs to control that.