{"id":57952,"date":"2017-06-15T11:30:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T04:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lily-beetle-wears-a-frock-of-frass-to-deter-foes\/"},"modified":"2017-06-15T11:39:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T04:39:07","slug":"lily-beetle-wears-a-frock-of-frass-to-deter-foes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lily-beetle-wears-a-frock-of-frass-to-deter-foes\/","title":{"rendered":"Lily beetle wears a frock of frass to deter foes"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nCrook, Country Durham Tiny larvae hatched then covered their bloated bodies in their own sticky excrement so they resembled bird droppings At first I thought the flash of red under the leaf was a ladybird. Then I realised that this was a scarlet lily beetle, which has the delightfully alliterative scientific name of Lilioceris lilii.These gaudy insects have a formidable appetite for lily foliage and have spread from their native Eurasia throughout most of the temperate northern hemisphere. They first appeared in a Surrey garden in 1939 and reached the US in 1943. They turned up in my garden in May. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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