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Alfie our Duck has done his new video on ridding the Vine Weevil his way, hope you enjoy. http://youtu.be/xzc_Mu-m-8o

A recent comment to a blog entry got me thinking about vine weevils. I haven't seen many in my garden for a few years. I wonder if this is the result of my zero-tolerance approach. Along with lily beetles, this is about the only creature I

Last week I found vine weevils on the rim of the pot my orange tree lives in. It stands next to my 'nursery' of seedlings, so potentially hundreds of plants could be affected. The adults cause little damage, save for a few nibbles on the edges

The first time for many years I have emptied my pots and baskets and there is no sign of vine weevil,have I been lucky or has this been a bad year for them? Maybe they drowned

I have an infestation of vine weevils in my polytunnel this year - they have attacked my grape vine and the weevils are crawling on most of the plants and eating chunks out of leaves and nibbling the stems, causing the new shoots to keel over. I

Hi everyone, yesterday i caught a sneaky vine weevil upto no good on one of my pristine primulas. Immediatly, I went  out and bought some vine beetle KILLER, but when I got home and studied the remedies I already have in my greenhouse, I came across

weevils do love strawberries! There's no guarantee the grubs won't eat the immature roots of your veg, but it might deter them (I've never heard of vine weevils eating carrots, parsnips and leeks). It's a good idea to lay a thick layer of gravel over

Vine weevil are like the slugs and snails, the more one kills the more appear any suggestions as to how to eradicate them ? Nematodes don't work very well up here in North East Scotland, at least not in our garden,and the little pests are so good

Over the winter my potted plants that have been sheltering undercover in the polytunnel seem to have become infested with vine weevil grubs - even my nectarine tree has the little white creatures in the soil. I can't water the pots with Provado

Hi all! I have just emptied a trough and found many vine weevil grubs in it. I have been checking the soil and squishing any grubs I found this afternoon (quite theraputic!). It seems a shame to throw away the soil and I was planning on spreading