What’s eating my shrubs...

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• Jenson Posts: 26

  March 2019

  PS I can’t find anything on the plants

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• AnniD Posts: 12,585

  March 2019

  Possibly viburnum beetle. Hopefully someone else can confirm.

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• Flinster Posts: 883

  March 2019

  It’s vine weevil! You can search this forum under that and there are a lot of threads about it and also google. Lots of advice on the tinterweb. The weevils are generally nocturnal which is why you won’t see anything. They are a pain in the proverbial!!

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• Jenson Posts: 26

  March 2019

  ‘Scuse my ignorance but I thought vine weevils were only a problem in pots. These are in the ground   

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• Flinster Posts: 883

  March 2019

  Yup... not just pots...

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• madpenguin Posts: 2,543

  March 2019

  Jenson said:

  ‘Scuse my ignorance but I thought vine weevils were only a problem in pots. These are in the ground   

  The grubs do the damage in pots but the adult beetles eat the leaves,just like yours 
  'orrible blighters either way!

  “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  March 2019

  Nematodes applied to that nerd is what you need ... sorted out a similar problem here. 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Nollie Posts: 7,529

  March 2019

  Apply the nematodes to the plant, not the nerd - unless you really don’t like him 

  Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  March 2019

  🙄 why did predictive text change ‘bed’ to ‘nerd’ 😡 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• AnniD Posts: 12,585

  March 2019

  Lol, l am going to treat any future vine weevils while muttering  " Take that, nerds ".
  Thanks Dove, made me smile !

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