Cyclamen 2010

[Maggi Young]

I'm not sure that it is slugs and snails which munch on our cyclamen leaves.... more those little fly thingies which chomp little holes.....the name utterly escapes me.... help, someone??!!

[Paul T]

Hmmmm... maybe we don't have those little fly thingies?

[goofy]

I too must echo the compliments for that red hederifolium.  Fantastic colour.  Thanks for showing us.

Maggi,  I have unchewed coum leaves here, and that is at the end of the season.  The snails and slugs are eating everything else, but not the Cyclamen.

I see,
australian slugs are 'Gourmets'   

cheers

[partisangardener]

Could it be this beetle Otiorhynchus sulcatus which is the culprit

[Maggi Young]

I know that creature only too well, Axel... the Vine Weevil  


 But that is not the one who makes the holes in my cyclamen leaves..... I still cannot remember the pest.... Roma... are you around? You would know what eats little holes in foliage.... is it a "flea beetle"?  

 Now that I think about it, we have ascribed the damage to "flea beetles"... but what type of  flea beetle I don't know..... very little thing.... you seldom see them but they chomp the leaves and can make tiny holes through them.

[partisangardener]

Some species of the Psylliodes. You get rid of them if you stick a sulphurmatch with its head in the ground.
Not good with vegetables, but I think you don't want to eat your Cyclamen.
Now I know  the English name of the Vine Weevil

[Maggi Young]

Yes, Axel, you are right I think... a Psylliodes  of some type... the larvae chew plants as well  

I can tell you in German  what else we call those weevils and the flea beetles...
......verdammte Schädlinge  !

[Lvandelft]

......verdammte Schädlinge  !

That sounds rather crude for such a nice Lady 

[Maggi Young]

......verdammte Schädlinge !

That sounds rather crude for such a nice Lady  

 I know, and I apologise... but you know...these pests are a REAL nuisance !

 Would you think  lästige Käfer  or   hinderlijk wezens to be better? 

[Lvandelft]

I know, and I apologise... but you know...these pests are a REAL nuisance !

 Would you think  lästige Käfer  or   hinderlijk wezens to be better? 

Maggi, I know all about diese Mistviecher and understand you very well 
lästige Käfer is also ok. But the Dutch translation sounds very much old-fashioned, typical googlish 

[Maggi Young]

Luit! Now I am shocked 

You know my Dutch is really non-existant  .... though I am getting better at reading the Flemish forum!

[Oron Peri]

Just caught up with the thread, Kris your cilicium in the rock garden is superb excellent leaf pattern, while Melvyn's hederifolium 'Corfu Red' should be shown at the National Gallery, if not the plant it self, at least the photo.It is just stunning!!

Here is C. graecum candicum in Crete, this colony has more pinkish color.

[mark smyth]

Did you lift the rock off the Sternbergias?

[mark smyth]

No holes in the leaves of my Cyclamen.

I thought flea beetles ate pollen but now I see they eat leaves also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flea_beetle

[Lvandelft]

though I am getting better at reading the Flemish forum!

No wonder Maggi, we are always told that the Flemish learn and write better Dutch than we do