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I hate vine weevils!
madpenguin
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Even after treating all my pots last year the little b*****rs are still in nearly all the pots!!
Sorry but just feeling a bit cheesed off!!
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Try going through over 400 Auricula pots looking for infestation. I did that a few weeks back and I am about to do it all over again.
Hi gardeners, you seem to be up on the knowledge of vine weevils. Can you tell me if these are they. They we're living in a bag of 6 X manure. Hopefully they are maggots. Thanks
You are safe, those are indeed maggots of some fly (might even be a goodie) and not vine weevil grubs, which have a distinctive C shape when disturbed like that.
Thanks Bob, that's a relief because I have put a hand full in every pot of bulbs to flower in the summer.i only saw them when it was too late.
Vine weevil grubs are cream in colour and have a distinguishable Orange spot at one end .once seen never forgotten.
What are vine weevil (sorry I'm a newb to all this) by this description I think I found some whilst repotting my strawberries at the weekend.
I had to go through all my strawberry plants, loads of them, they like strawberries. They are the only thing I cannot touch with bare hands, they come out of the soil so clean and smug looking?
Here's one of mine, picture gives a good view of what the head end looks like.
What do they do? Do they destroy the plants? Definitely looks like the ones I found.