The Royal Horticulture Society in the United Kingdom has a great page on their web site about the lily beetle. The photos in the article show very well what the lily beetle looks like. Down near the bottom of the article is a map showing how much the Lily beetle has spread and how dense the population has become. From looking at this map of the lily beetles progression it gives us an idea of what can happen in our areas across Canada and on the prairies. In Alberta we have been relatively luck so far with only minimal reports of the lily beetle starting to emerge. If all of use keep an eye out and start reporting the lily beetle we can control it well before it can take hold. For a look at the Royal Horticulture Society information page you can follow this link Scarlet Lily Beetles in the UK.
If you have any photographs of the lily beetle please send them in. We would love pictures of the adult lily beetles, the larva, and the eggs to better help everyone identify the lily beetle.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
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Kevin,
ReplyDeleteWe have a biological control website at the University of Rhode Island that has some pictures of adults, eggs and larvae.
http://cels.uri.edu/pls/biocontrol/
I plan to add more information about our biological control program sometime soon.