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Sticky Traps for vine weevils

NewfieNewfie Posts: 5
in Problem solving
Would anyone tell me if sticky traps are available and do they work for adult vine weevils. I’ve used nematodes for the grubs before and it hard to tell whether they are making a difference. They are also very expensive.
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  • ShepsSheps Posts: 2,236
    These might work, though I've never tried them myself.

    https://www.gardening-naturally.com/nematop-vine-weevil-trap?gclid=CjwKCAjw9J2iBhBPEiwAErwpeQNwiqZUzMNPk7dnGCtAZ3i3JAOIC-VRaZABUNVMEqrloL5Q9NaRqBoCAigQAvD_BwE
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    The vine weevil beetle comes out at night. They are elongated in shape and a dull brown/black, about the size of an earwig and fairly slow moving. 
    I have never used traps but have been considering putting something sticky all the way around the edges of containers.
  • KeenOnGreenKeenOnGreen Posts: 1,831
    We are very picky about we plant in containers, and that has almost completely eradicated the problem of Vine Weevils for us. It's not foolproof, I lost a pot of something recently (Ivy of all things), which had never been touched by them in 20 years.

    I don't recall ever finding them in open ground, even though I know they don't breed exclusively in pots. 
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited April 2023
    I got vine weevils in my greenhouse.  I painted some black sticky stuff (designed for fruit trees) on the legs of the benchs.  It was ugly, messy and didn't achieve anything.

    You can buy sticky yellow traps deigned for flying insects but it you laid thwm on the bench they could be avoided by what I call: wine veevils.

    (Did you know they are parthenogenetic. - 100% lesbians.  That fact may warm you to them ... or not.))
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I think toads might keep the population down too .
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I suspect you'd have more by-catch than the actual targets with sticky traps. I've found that encouraging more insect life to the garden helps to keep down pest numbers better than any other solution. I was clearing out some pots in the greenhouse yesterday and found some dead vine weevils that had been killed by spiders. I make sure my greenhouses have lots of spiders and, touch wood, I don't get many pests in there. I still do nocturnal patrols with a torch to keep the numbers of vine weevil adults down. Just take a jar or some kind, knock them off the plants into the jar and then put the jar in the freezer to kill them. Or squash them if you're not squeamish.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • NewfieNewfie Posts: 5
    I will get the torch out then, thank you
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    There’s an old thread somewhere documenting my nightly weevil hunts 😂 

    I’m not so besieged by them since I moved to a house with a garden. 

    All of my pots are covered in horticultural grit and, so far, I’ve not lost anything here. 
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Newfie said:
    I will get the torch out then, thank you
    It takes a bit of time to get your eye in and work out which plants the adults like and where you can find them. Once you work it out though you'll find them in the same spots more often than not. Hylotelephium is a big draw for them, hellebore, rhododendron, strawberry, and saxifrage are all worth checking.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    bédé said:
    ...
    (Did you know they are parthenogenetic. - 100% lesbians.  That fact may warm you to them ... or not.))

    As I understand it they don't need a partner at all, male or female. They just get on with it all by themselves.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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