It looks like Chili Thrips to me. Depends where you live.

Growing in the tropics - Caribbean

@RaeAnna is thrips, not sure what the difference btw thrips or chili thrips. take all these buds out and throw it in the garbage before it spreads to all your roses! I thought my roses were damaged by the cold/rain and found out too late that all my roses had thrips. now i had to cut every bud and flower. it does really affect the plant itself but the rose will look dirty/deformed and some will fail to open. here are some of my infected roses

If you open the rose itself you should see tinny little insects on it

It looks like plain old thrips to me, but I'm no expert on chili thrips, which we don't get here. Diane

Forgot--often the thrips will have moved on to another life stage, and you won't find the little !@#$, but they leave their evidence behind. Diane

😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 @CeresMer I am floored. I had no idea it spreads to other roses and now that I think of it, YOURE SO RIGHT. It started with one as in this photo and now it’s almost all!!!!!!!!!!! We have had stormy weather and then scorchers in between so I assumed it was the weather. Luckily I decided to cut some today! I bought a spraying device today. I’ve never sprayed my roses before. Can you send anyone else who has treated this, share their tips?

Diane that’s soo great you guys don’t have this issue. It’s the most annoying thing to battle for me!!!

@RaeAnna tell me about it!!! i didnt take action early enough and bam!! all my roses are insfestes with it 😭😭. like you, I thought it was the rain and cold. I bought spinosad, you have to spray the buds while they start forming (pea size) to try to keep them away. once you see damage is too late. Cut the damaged buds out to hopefuly keep it from spreading... there is also a systematic @Diane Brakefield mentioned, i just dont know the name.

she is going to let me know!

Thank you! Hopefully Diane sees this and can tell us. I got a systemic too but it unfortunately doesn’t cover thrips in its profile. I got it anyways. Tmrw, it’s ON

Rae Anna, I do have the issue of thrips in certain roses, and have battled them for years. The worst affected roses in my garden are Evelyn, The Prince, Augusta Luise (a little), and occasionally a couple of other roses. Here are some things I've found out over the years: by the time you have thrips infection symptoms, it's too late. The tiny insects are inside the buds and blooms. They use rasping mouthparts to suck juices from the rose, and leave the ugly brown areas behind as the result. Spraying on surface acting insecticides, whether organic (like Spinosad) or non-organic, doesn't work. You have to use a systemic that gets inside the rose before the buds are made by the plant. What works for me is Bonide Granular Systemic Insecticide (on Amazon, and Walmart carries it, too). It has the ingredient: imidacloprid. This is a synthetic insecticide, but it works. I apply the suggested amount around only the susceptible roses and scratch and water it in. I do this at least 30 days before buds are formed (early spring). I had just a tiny bit of thrips in maybe three of the seven or so roses I treated. I don't think any so called organic treatment can get rid of thrips. It's a choice I've made, and I certainly have many beneficial insects and pollinators each year that are not affected. Often thrips will come around a second time later in the season. Prepare for this by doing the early spring routine. Good luck.

I hope CeresMer reads this--I don't want to write it out again--ha. Diane

@Diane Brakefield thank you.

Thanks so much @Diane!
Appreciate this

@Diane Brakefield thank you for always taking the time to answer and share your knoledge with us Diane! i really appreciate!

You're welcome, and I hope you get rid of those thrips. Diane