Ask-a-Dave's-Gardener: Green worms eating the roses...ughhhh. rose slug?, 1 by TheDreamyKind

TheDreamyKind wrote:
Can someone tell me if they are rose slugs, or something else ? What should I do or did wrong?

I\'m going to hose them viciously first thing in the morning. May visit the garden store too. But your thoughts/knowledge are wanted too badly.

All my roses have them. The new shoots are being eaten. The underside of leaves have tiny white things in oval shape, eggs that haven\'t hatched yet? And a few green worms too, around the holes eaten off. Not a whole lot yet but enough to get me worrying. The roses haven\'t been that happy looking since coming home with me.

I am terribly fearing to lose my baby roses. These are the circumstances I figure related. : 1) many ants are bothering my roses since I planted them a week ago. I read that ants are protectors of the worm by keeping their predators away. 2) rose leaves have been flopping down or curling up a bit for a few days already. 3) when planting I used compost+mushroom+top soil. So I may have over fertilized and caused the problem?

I\'m at the greater Vancouver area of BC Canada, zone 6a maybe? I\'m new to gardening that\'s why. :( thanks!