I had been planting up my tubs on the patio and tipped out a pot with
an astilbe in, no plant but plenty of the above pests , on further
investigations a number of my pots had the vermin. I have sinced
removed all contents from the patio and have treated a couple of shrubs
in pots with Aprovel. Do these pests like the garden borders or is it
just pots? WilI ever be rid or am I stuck with them forever?

I mean Vine Weevil

I'm sorry to say that vine weevil are not just pot dwelling pests. They can be found all over the garden where susceptible plants are grown. Look for the tell-tale leaf-edge damage that the adult vine weevils cause and this will indicate the areas in the garden where the larvae are at large.

There's an info sheet here http://www.just-green.com/8b-PhotoAl...VineWeevil.pdf which you can open with adobe.

Ian

"Mel" wrote in message
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I had been planting up my tubs on the patio and tipped out a pot with
an astilbe in, no plant but plenty of the above pests , on further
investigations a number of my pots had the vermin. I have sinced
removed all contents from the patio and have treated a couple of shrubs
in pots with Aprovel. Do these pests like the garden borders or is it
just pots? WilI ever be rid or am I stuck with them forever?

I'm afraid that once you have them it's for life :~(
And yes they do live in the garden as well as pots :~((
Jenny

Mel wrote:
I had been planting up my tubs on the patio and tipped out a pot with
an astilbe in, no plant but plenty of the above pests , on further
investigations a number of my pots had the vermin. I have sinced
removed all contents from the patio and have treated a couple of shrubs
in pots with Aprovel. Do these pests like the garden borders or is it
just pots? WilI ever be rid or am I stuck with them forever?

I think you're stuck with them. We use nematodes here against vine
weevil and slugs and that's an extremely effective treatment you might
like to look into. Personally, I've never come across any when I've
been potting things up and have never even heard of them as a point of
discussion.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon

Mel wrote:
I had been planting up my tubs on the patio and tipped out a pot with
an astilbe in, no plant but plenty of the above pests , on further
investigations a number of my pots had the vermin. I have sinced
removed all contents from the patio and have treated a couple of shrubs
in pots with Aprovel. Do these pests like the garden borders or is it
just pots? WilI ever be rid or am I stuck with them forever?

It is only in the last thirty or forty years that vine weevil has become a
common pest. It was said to be due to the increasing use of peat-based
composts.Do you use them in your containers?
I suggest you re-pot one or two of your affected plants in JI compost
to see if it makes any difference.I always use it and hardly see a vine
weevil
these days.Better than using poison.

Sam.

"sam" wrote
Mel wrote:
I had been planting up my tubs on the patio and tipped out a pot with
an astilbe in, no plant but plenty of the above pests , on further
investigations a number of my pots had the vermin. I have sinced
removed all contents from the patio and have treated a couple of
shrubs in pots with Aprovel. Do these pests like the garden borders
or is it just pots? WilI ever be rid or am I stuck with them
forever?

It is only in the last thirty or forty years that vine weevil has
become a common pest. It was said to be due to the increasing use of
peat-based composts.Do you use them in your containers?
I suggest you re-pot one or two of your affected plants in JI compost
to see if it makes any difference.I always use it and hardly see a
vine weevil these days.Better than using poison.

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.

--
Sue

"K" wrote
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.

That reminded me of Alice and the mutton at the Red Queen's banquet.

Weevil - Kay. Kay - Weevil. ;-)

--
Sue

"K" wrote in message
...
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:-)

Janet Baraclough wrote:
The message
from K spake these timeless words:

In an earlier career, one of my colleagues was a weevil specialist.

Please put us out of our misery :-) What kind of a career employs a
weevil specialist?

Weevil Kenievel?
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon

Janet Baraclough writes
The message
from K spake these timeless words:

In an earlier career, one of my colleagues was a weevil specialist.

Please put us out of our misery :-) What kind of a career employs a
weevil specialist?

Same sort that employed the oligochaetologist that I'm married to ;-)

Taxonomy - the underpinning of all other work on biological organisms -
sorting out what is a distinct species and what is just inter-species
variation,. And how the different species are related to each other. I
used to give them mathematical advice, and got to know a lot of
interesting people - like the chap who kept dead foxes in his garden so
he could study the flies and other creatures feeding on the carcass. And
why would an professional entomologist keep Sarracenia as a hobby?
--
Kay