"K" wrote in message
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Sue writes


Vine weevils manage very well in the borders of my garden,
unfortunately, and they don't have any peat there. Photinia seems to be
a favourite shrub to nibble and the grubs also turn up particularly
under sedums and heuchera IME. Strangely I haven't so far had problems
with them in potted outdoor plants though (she said, touching wood).

You sometimes read that the adults only come out at night but I've seen
them wandering around in broad daylight quite often. I caught one once
in full sun on a hot day, climbing determinedly straight up the glass of
the kitchen window, and twice found one in the bathroom. I suppose it
makes a change from spiders.

In an earlier career, one of my colleagues was a weevil specialist. He had
a great fondness for them, and explained how much more cautious and less
impetuous weevils are than beetles, who scurry around at high speed. It's
difficult to regard anything as 'the enemy' when you have been
'introduced' to it, so to speak.
--
Kay

We vil forgive you for this momentary madness:-)