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Vine Weevil

KeenOnGreenKeenOnGreen Posts: 1,831
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Some of my pots have Vine Weevil grubs.  I normally just put this soil on my flower beds.  What do you do with it? Any tips.  

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Tip it out and the birds will eat them. Then stick it on the beds  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • K67K67 Posts: 2,506
    We dont get birds. Having spent the summer hunting the adults every  night for several months and catching well over 200 I prefer to leave nothing to chance so they are squashed.
  • KeenOnGreenKeenOnGreen Posts: 1,831
    Nice idea @Fairygirl , I hadn't thought of that.  It's the first time in ages that they have killed anything that we have in pots, so I had gotten quite complacent about them.

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    They're little bandits aren't they?
    I had a few small heucheras from ones I'd split a while ago. I'd stuck them out the way, and about a month ago, thought I'd use a couple in various spaces, but several had been munched, so I spent a wee while cleaning the soil off them all, replanting them, and put all the grubs into the birdcage for dinner for the birds.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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