Category: Diseases and Pests

Discussions about a wide variety of elements that can harm daffodils.

sun-drying bulbs

Daffnetters, My experience with bulbs left in the sun is quite different from that of Clay Higgins and Dave Adams. Here in Oakley, California, any bulb missed in digging and left in the sun for a few days will be…

an alternate to HWT?

Hot water treatment as far as I have read will NOT kill the various virus’s that daffodil bulbs can be infested with. Hot water treatment for bulbs is normally used to kill mites, nematodes, bulb flies ETC. There is an…

Help – flying insects

Help – flying insects How can I tell a narcissus fly from a honey bee, short of seeing if it will sting me?  There is a swarm (well, hundreds) of honeybee size insects flying low and crawling on the ground…

insect problem

If it weren’t for the tulips being involved as well, I’d suggest greater or lesser narcissus bulb fly. I’ve had both. If there are several grubs in each bulb, sounds like lesser bulb fly. But I have never had them…