"Amber" wrote in message
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I have seen/read the HDR and RHS pages already its their info thats
making me wonder what I have! I have been looking for weeks without any
real luck ;-((((

The plants looks like they have flea beetle damage. As I have been hit
hard by that its hard to tell whats the weevils and whats the flea
beetles. But the weevils are in very large numbers atm so I am
presuming the damage is from them. There are lots of small holes and
pittings on the leaves. As yet I have not seen any grubs since the
Spring which ate the strawberrys and also the succulent plants (which
is the source of that infection).

This seems to be a new attack. I had the numbers bad a month or so back
and then not so many. Now they are back in full force. I have dumped in
boiling water a load of plants (RIP to the plants) and used sticky tape
on the other plants. But I have spent many days hunting the web under
all sorts to try and ID them. I am very nervous as I collect cacti and
succulents and these things are all over (in and out of the
greenhouse). I also did a vine weevil biological control last week -
but keeping the soil wet is hard plus some of this stuff I just killed
off is new plantings.

I have been trying to find a page thats a list of UK weevils or UK
beetles but without any luck. They either have poor pictures or just
say about one or the other. There must be something. I guess my next
thing would be bottling some put and posting it to the RHS?

When I try and pick them put they fall onto the soil or the center of
the plant so are hard to get in any numbers.

Thanks for the reply so far.
amber


Vine weevils have quite obvious orange spots on their dull black bodies and
its very unusual to find them in the sort of numbers described. what other
weevils may be responsible I am afraid I have no idea.

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)