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Small brown beetles all over the garden?

flowerlover2flowerlover2 Posts: 77
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Hi 
What are these brown beetles that are everywhere in the garden at the moment please? There are hundreds of them. I hope they are nothing too bad?!thank you
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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I think they are some kind of weevil,  but not vine weevil.
    @wild edges will know,  he’s an  insects expert. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • flowerlover2flowerlover2 Posts: 77
    Thank you lyn :)
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    Could well be pollen beetles.
  • flowerlover2flowerlover2 Posts: 77
    They are a lot bigger and don't seem to be on any flowers like pollen beetles would
  • Winston_The_Gravity_ManWinston_The_Gravity_Man Posts: 263
    You might want to get that paintwork seen to, @flowerlover2 , before rainwater gets under the flakey bits and starts rotting the wood.
    When there's always biscuits in the tin, where's the fun in biscuits ?
  • flowerlover2flowerlover2 Posts: 77
    Thanks, Winston. It's been on the to-do list for a long time. The wood on one side has indeed rotten and it will a bigger job to replace the whole frame. :#
  • flowerlover2flowerlover2 Posts: 77
    If the beetles don't take it down first :D
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    Hard to tell size without any reference to scale.
    Blown it up as much as I can and don't think it is a weevil. All weevils have elongated snouts and as far as I can see this one does not possess that attribute.
  • flowerlover2flowerlover2 Posts: 77
    Thanks, Palistris, does it mean they are harmless?
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Winston_The_Gravity_Man said:
    You might want to get that paintwork seen to,
    Water from behind is a sure way to cause paint to stop adhering.

    Not wishing to depart too far from the OP.  Modern low solvent outdoor paints do achieve some targets, but long term adhesion to wood and old paint is not one of them.

    In many areas, my house last outside professional repaint job has lasted no time.  Peeling and flaking.
     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."
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