Re: blister beetles was peony, now Glaucidium, now Aconitum

Every once in a while, I get a herd of this beast come through and
strip all of my anemone plants of foliage before I notice they are
there.  They're fast.  I don gloves and derive extreme pleasure from
squashing them, leaving the corpses for their compatriots to
contemplate.  Don't handle without gloves - they didn't get their
name for nothin...big insects.  Don't seem to go after anything but
my anemones for some reason.

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: Gene Bush <genebush@otherside.com>
> Hello Ceres,
>     The blister beetles devours all the foliage... in almost the
blink of an
> eye. Of course they are probably on the foliage for a while before
they are
> spotted. They are fast, though. If one does not spray they stay on
until
> that clematis or anemone is completely stripped. New foliage
usually comes
> back out, but sure looks terrible just after it happens.

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