Something is devouring in butterfly bush-any suggestions to save it?
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Sally
I'm guessing its an earwig, the thing with the pinchers. I have gone out at night and can see them on it and pretty many of them too. What can I do to keep them off?
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If it is earwigs, the Wisconsin Master Gardener Program has some very good non-chemical suggestions for their control, including traps you can make yourself, here: http://wimastergardener.org/?q=earwigs I would certainly avoid spraying an insecticide around a plant that is designed to attract insects. The insecticide will not know the good from the bad.
Douglas Hunt
on Jun 26, 2014
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HI Doug, thank you for the tips. I have tried two of them and this particular area is not damp and dark, I think they just LOVE eating a butterfly bush. It seems early in the year is when they fill their tiny bellies and by the late summer, they are so full they back off and allow the plant to grow, happens every year. I'll keep trying and collecting them to get them off the bush. Thank you.
Sally
on Jun 26, 2014
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