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What a eating my dahlia tubers?

Sazz101Sazz101 Posts: 248
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Hello. I started my new Sarah Raven dahli tubers off inside with fresh compost. During reporting I noticed the tubers have holes in them and these white worms with black insides showing through their transparent skin. How can I get rid of them?



Thanks in advance.

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Difficult to see but by the empty skin they look like vine weevils, they love dahlia tubers.
    The beetle itself is black.  
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Sazz101Sazz101 Posts: 248
    Thanks Lyn. No idea how they managed to find these pots inside. Nowhere’s safe!!! 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    No where’s safe from the vine weevils, considering they can’t fly, only walk, I’ve found one in the kitchen and one in the bathroom. 
    They bury into the tubers then live on them all winter,  when I dry my tubers off for keeping, I check every nook and cranny, any suspecting hole I poke a little stick in, often brought out a veevil  grub. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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