Morning Glories: L@@K What I Found . . ., 1 by raydio

raydio wrote:
OK, Emma.

Yeah, those holes! I think the ones on my vine are caused by a tiny shiny black beetle that also loves to eat the petals off of purple coneflower before they even show color! They are sneaky too: they drop off the leaf or bloomed when disturbed so they're really hard to remove. Carbaryl gets 'em every time, but there's the bees and so forth to try and save, but I use it on the foliage and on the very small buds long before ther's anything to attract a butterfly or bee.

Great luck you're having with all the pandurata!

I dug up a small root the other day too. Pencil thick and about 7" long (I broke part of itoff, accidentally). Looks like it's going to be fine.