{"id":1943,"date":"2018-04-24T09:09:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T09:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/how-to-get-rid-of-lily-beetle\/"},"modified":"2018-04-24T09:09:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T09:09:58","slug":"how-to-get-rid-of-lily-beetle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/how-to-get-rid-of-lily-beetle\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get rid of Lily Beetle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This question was asked by <span class=\"hubmaster_faq_author\"><br \/> &#8211; <em>lois stanley<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"hubmaster_faq_blockquote\"><p>I love growing lilies but these became prone to lily beetle after a couple of years.  What&#8217;s the best solution to get rid of lily beetle?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"hubmaster_faq_answer\">Being vigilant is key to keeping the lily beetles from ruining your lilies! However, we also suggest the following for preventing lily beetle from destroying your lilies:<\/p>\n<p>1) Spray with Imidcloprid and sunflower oil (or Bayer Provado Ultimate Bug Killer).<\/p>\n<p>2) If you do not like using insecticides then spraying with diluted fairy liquid or crushed garlic in water have been suggested. Crush a whole corm of garlic in a small pan of boiling water. Allow to cool, strain and put in a small container in the fridge. When using, dilute three parts water to one part garlic solution. Spray often, every few days, especially when it has rained. There is a garlic product available in garden centres and stores, but this is a much cheaper alternative.<\/p>\n<p>3) More recently, a customer has tried planting their lily bulbs alongside a garlic and this has been quite successful in keeping the lily beetles away.<\/p>\n<p>4) Alternatively, we have been advising our customers to spray their lilies with NEEM oil to eradicate the lily beetle! We recommend using a hand sprayer with 1 teaspoon of Neem Oil (5ml) plus a small amount of washing up liquid (as a surfactant) with approx. 500ml water. So 1 part Neem Oil to 100 parts water (1:100).<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"hubmaster_faq_editor\">Loraine Hart<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being vigilant is key to keeping the lily beetles from ruining your lilies! However,.. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/how-to-get-rid-of-lily-beetle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[232],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq","tag-faq"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}