Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Passiflora Leaf Beetle...how do I get rid of them?!, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Found gobs...gobs...oh heck, hundreds of these beetle eating my passiflora vine...well so far they have only hit the p. incarnata (I think that's what it's called) and the p. foetida.

Deb led me to the correct genus and I did a search to compare photos and found this one...which I believe is the exact bug...UGH!!!

Disonycha stenosticha Schaeffer

http://www.texasento.net/glabrata.htm

Has anyone else had them...and how do I get rid of them without harming the passifloras and any Gulf Fritillary eggs or cats that may be on them. So far I have not seen any fritillary activity but don't want to kill off any eggs a butterfly may come to lay.

~ Cat