Collect them, by torchlight, at night whilst they are feeding. The boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) attacks cotton crops; it lays its eggs inside cotton bolls and the larvae eat their way out. A table displaying which months are best to sow, plant and harvest. Thursday, 21 March, 2019 at 3:00 pm . They are often curled in to a ‘C’ shape.Vine weevils may damage almost anything you try to grow but some of the adults’ firm favourites include camellias, rhododendrons and azaleas, euonymus and hydrangea.As far as the grub’s feeding is concerned, anything growing in a container is a favourite target.
By BBC Gardeners' World Magazine. The real danger is the underground grub - you can’t see what they’re doing until maybe it’s too late.Baby vine weevils grow from little eggs laid in the plant’s roots - which are very difficult to see. They are all female and each can lay up to 1,000 eggs in a season. The easiest way to confirm if vine weevil grubs are the culprits is to take the plant out of its container and inspect the roots. The results are unsightly but not life-threatening to the plant. What do vine weevil eggs look like? In fact you may well only realise that the grubs are doing damage when all of a sudden plants suddenly start to wilt and die. The eggs are often confused with slow release fertilizer pellets, such as ozmacote, when are found in common compost mixes. They have antennae that are elbowed, but rather unusually they cannot fly. They are very small and shiny, and are generally found on the underside. Vine weevil alert: look out for the vine weevil this spring. The vine weevil eggs hatch out in to grubs and having fed well these then pupate in the soil or compost. The pupae look like a cross between a grub and an adult – largely keeping the juvenile features but on close inspection you should be able to see some of the adult features including the legs and antennae beneath the outer ‘skin’. This unique control method is proving highly effective against adult vine weevils in and around the garden and the vegetable plot. Pick them up, squash them and bin them.It is possible to kill the adult larvae that feed on plant roots by drenching the compost in which ornamental plants are growing with a There are no recommended insecticides approved for treating edible crops.Wild rabbits in the garden can cause extensive damage, eating trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, fruit and vegetables...Cockroaches are one of those household pests you don’t want to come face to face with – especially in the kitchen...We all know what wasps look like and what they do!
They do most damage between late summer and spring. So they can’t be ignored.Adult vine weevils are pretty resistant to sprays. What can I do to control the adult vine weevil? Vine weevil eggs are white when laid, approximately 0.8 mm in diameter and round. Symptoms. They are a matt black with delicate tan brown flecking on their backs. Vine weevil. The ozmacote pellets are 2 mm in diameter, release liquid fertilizer when squashed and range in colour from yellow to dark brown.