Green flying things....
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- Diane
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I was pottering about in the greenhouse a couple of days ago when I noticed (or heard, rather) a big green beetle flying around and crashing into the glass. I rescued it and launched it into the garden. Then went indoors to look it up and found it was a rose chafer. Went back into the greenhouse and within minutes I was surrounded by a whole squadron of the critters...all coming up from out of a little length of hosepipe stuck in the corner. Millions of them (well, about 30!). It was just like flying ant day....but green. Never had that happen before. Very surreal. Then I remembered that during the winter, when I was poking around in the soil, I'd found a couple of big fat white larvae which, at the time I thought were vine weevil larvae, and now I know to be rose chafer larvae. Learning stuff all the time. Just love gardening.
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- oldherbaceous
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That's interesting Diane, i have never known them in numbers like that before!
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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