I use a translaminar insecticide on my large lilies (which means it moves into the leaf). It is the only way to have any large lilies at all. The native moth Brithys, a lily borer, just turns them to mush. It gets below the epithelium and cannot be sprayed or powered. It makes its way to the bulb and thus endeth the lily.
After much research, I used a insecticide whose active constituent is Spinosad, which is a natural product. It apparently has negligible risk to pollinators once it has dried. But what do you trust?
On small lily varieties the cats cannot burrow and I can catch them easily by hand. Nothing eats them because they are toxic and blare this with their colouring.
I worry though. It might be that I will have to just give up on Hippies and Crinum.
