CHAPTER XXI 



PESTS OF THE ROSE 



THE pests of the rose are so numerous as to alarm the 

 beginner who is confronted with a list of them for the 

 first time. Here is a list extracted from a handbook 

 published by the National Rose Society, and I am bound to admit 

 that it is a gruesome catalogue : 



Beetles (Coleoftera) 



Rose beetle Garden chafer 



Cockchafer Weevils 



Summer chafer 



Bees and Sawflies (ffymenoptera) 



Rose leaf-cutting bee Rose emphytus 



Leaf-rolling sawfly Rose shoot -borer sawfly 



Rose slugworm 



Vapourer moth Mottled umber moth 



Pale tussock moth Tortrix moth or rose maggot 



Gold-tail moth Red rose maggot 



Brown-tail moth Brown rose grub 



Buff-lip moth Green rose maggot 



Dagger moth Yellow rose grub 



Winter moth Rose-leaf miner 



Aphides, Scale Insects, tie. (ffemiptera) 



Greenfly, or rose aphis Frog-hopper or cnckoo-sptt 



Scale insects Rose-leaf hopper 



Scurvy rose scale 



Thrips ( Thysanoptera) 

 Red Spider ( Tt.tranychus telarius) 



In addition to this formidable array of insect pests the diseases 



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