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think I am fighting a losing battle with the one on the photo or give me any advice?  Would be really grateful.  Thank you. could it be vine weevil>adults eating the leaves and the grubs eating the roots?i treated some of my shrubs and plants with a

, however, seem to get an awful lot of those horrible white grubs (chafers I think) probably because when we came here 10 years ago our garden was just a field with a few trees.  Nothing for slugs to live on but plenty for the chafers.  Also, now I have a

' from the caterpillars and grubs the parent birds feed them.  Adult birds get some from the same source but they also drink water.  I've seen them drinking from the bird bath, pond, puddles and the water trays under my plant pots, this is why it's very

wisteria Sculinky – I have that problem too. I keep checking how many frogs are in the pond, and going indoors so the blackbird can forage for grubs. But it’s all pat of gardening, and makes it much more enjoyable! hi kate and happymarion,many thanks

June. answer to the gardener with the tiny white mites, these sound like white fly, if they were vine weeval the parent would be brownish/black and the grubs would be under the plant eating the roots these must be dug out and destroyed, I give them

I hope you both remembered to take off the plant lables or any close fitting ties on the main stem. I heard this problem on a GQT session and despite years of experience the gardener had still left a tie so tight it choked the plant to death. Commonly happens just after as summer...

- effectivelt knocking them back a month.Then the ladybirds arrive, quickly followed by their grubs (I've counted 20 on one plant).The blackfly dissapear, the plants recover and I get a great crop.I've been experimenting with tying bundles of bamboo sticks

spinach and to my horror, loads of little white grubs floated to the top of the water! I went through each leaf and found more inbedded in the actual leaf its self, What are these??? Also there are little white flat circles that were floating too!! Even

and fell into the side of my greenhouse. Luckily we had gotten toughened glass and as I bounced off the glass the only injury was to my pride. Hi sarahs pondlife, how lovely. They're probably leafcutter bees. You're right - the baby grubs just stay

the flowers to lift my mood, tulips have been wonderful, but vine weeval have been rampant so have purchased nematoads to deal with them so what ever you have in pots keep an eye for these evil beetles and their grubs. I'm hoping someone can give me some