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Vine weevil grubs

B3B3 Posts: 27,503
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When you pop a vine weevil grub, why does white stuff squirt out?

Can someone point me to a link?

When I googled it, I could only find watts to kill it. This is extremely laudable, but I am still curious.

In London. Keen but lazy.

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  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,041

    I expect it's vine weevil blood!

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,143
    Cos it's white. I'm pinky coloured. If you squished me pinky red stuff would squirt out. :-0

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





  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    Indeed it is, and called hemolymph:

    http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=338

     

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,503

    Thanks so much Bob. Just enough detail for me to cope with! The link  answered my supplementary questions too.

    I will try this link for any more 'I wonder why...' thoughts that occur during mindless gardening tasksimage

     

    In London. Keen but lazy.
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