Vine weevil?

what is the best way to catch vine weevils eating your plants? And are there other organic methods of controlling vine weevil?

Vine weevil?
You can catch the adults feeding at night. Wait for a couple of hours after darkness and then use a flashlight. If they see the light though they will take off. During the daylight hours, they hide in debris around the base of the shrub. That is why it is always a good idea to keep the area immediately under your shrubs free of dead, fallen leaves and litter. Don't give them a place to hideout. With weevils you have a double problem however. The larvae are feeding on the roots of the shrubs at the same time that the adults scallop the edges of the leaves.


I know of no "organic" method to control the weevil. You can use granular "sevin" around the root zone of the shrubs and water it in to control some of the adults and larvae. A "systemic" pesticide will also control the adults when they come out to feed at night. A couple of bites and they will be on their way to bug heaven! Ortho makes such a product. Hope this answers your question...





Added Info: FYI, there are no "predator's" that will eat the larvae, birds included...lol. They are too deep in the soil for this to happen.





...$Billy Ray$
Reply:If they are eating plants in the garden then go out in the night with a torch, pick and squish. In the ground the grubs will be eaten by predators or grubbed up by birds. Make sure the soil is loosened so they can do this.


No organic method for pots unfortunately. The only thing you can do is use a topping of grit or gravel on pots to stop them laying. It has to be thick enough to cover all the soil or they will still get in there. Use a piece of weed suppressing ground cover in the bottom of the pot to stop them going in through the drainage holes(s) It lets water through but not pests including slugs!


For catching the beetles try corrugated cardboard in rolls near the pots. They will hide in them during the day, unroll and squish.





EIT....There are natural predators. Centipedes eat both eggs and larvae.


http://www.dgsgardening.btinternet.co.uk...


Thrushes, robins and blackbirds will grub for larvae. They flick the soil out of the beds to find them.


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The larvae are not too deep. They feed on roots just below the soil level which is why plants keel over. They do not eat from the bottom up but just below the base of the plant.
Reply:sneak up on them from behind

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