Garden

[mousiegirl]

Is this sawfly damage?

[JustJazzmom]

No, that looks like slug or snail damage.

This is sawfly damage (on roses):

Brown garden snail damage to hosta from oregon state edu.

[hummermom]

I agree with the expert opinion of Jazzmom: it's slug or snail damage. My hostas look like that if I don't use Sluggo on a regular basis.

[Drythe]

The deer ate mine before the insects could get to them.  : O (

[mousiegirl]

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@Drythe wrote:

The deer ate mine before the insects could get to them.  : O (

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Can you put something around them to prevent the deer from reaching them?

[mousiegirl]

What about this?

[Drythe]

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@mousiegirl wrote:

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@Drythe wrote:

The deer ate mine before the insects could get to them.  : O (

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Can you put something around them to prevent the deer from reaching them?

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No matter what I use, it seems that each deer must try each plant at least once.  : O >

[JustJazzmom]

Is that a rose leaf mousiegirl? Got more specimens to show?

It could be anthractnose which can cause the holes in the leaves or it could be insect damage too.

Here is what anthractnose looks like on roses:

See how the fungus is ringed with a dark circle?

Now with blackspot the fungus is asymmetrical and not round shaped or black ringed the way anthractnose presents itself.

[mousiegirl]

Jazzmom, I have black spot and some mildew, but not the other.  It's the crazy weather here.  I know snails are around, but due to the elongated holes in leaves, I thought something else may be around, as I have never seen this type of hole in leaves before.

[JustJazzmom]

This past Friday after we fed the Extension roses their Epsom salts, we paired up to do a 'scavenger hunt' to locate diseases and insect damage and the best specimens shown enabled the 'winners' to get a prize. We all were winners and I took home some green wire on a spool. I figured if I don't use it gardening I can use it to attach Christmas lights to the front porch railing.