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Post by snowowl on Jan 4, 2008 12:38:45 GMT
just been a walk round my garden looking for any bulbs that might have come up when i noticed something has beeen munching on my primulas. They are in pots and the leaves are coverd in holes.  Does this look like Vine weeval damage?if so should i be treating my containers at this time of year. I did treat them in the autume with provado  Thanks |
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Post by Barbara on Jan 4, 2008 12:56:20 GMT
little slugs, would be my guess, mine are like that as well  if you lift the leaves up you will find them, they are usually black ones. |
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Post by snowowl on Jan 4, 2008 13:02:34 GMT
Thanks B im going out to have a look now.How come they survive the frozen weather we have had just lately?
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Post by snowowl on Jan 4, 2008 13:12:38 GMT
Had a root round cant see any slugs but i found this little beggar it a small green caterpillar. Tinier than a VW grub.Sorry the photo is dark but you can just make it out. What is it from in the midddle of winter?  |
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Post by andy on Jan 4, 2008 13:29:02 GMT
generally when trying to ID something that's munching your plants, look closely at the pattern of the eaten area.
Slugs tend to be very indiscriminate and there is no "pattern" to their munching.
Caterpillas and weevils tend to leave little "bite marks" around the edges which is evident in this photo....especially in the top right hand part of the leaf
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Post by Rosefriend on Jan 4, 2008 13:51:44 GMT
Just had a very quick peep in the garden - and I have the same problem - caterpillars - lovely green things.....well they were.. they are now in the great caterpillar heaven....... I even found one on one of my roses ....now that is sacrilege!!
RF
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Post by snowowl on Jan 4, 2008 14:36:31 GMT
Thanks Andy for the help should i treat with VW killer now or leave till later on in spring?
Im pretty sure these little caterpillars are the culprit but they have had a good feed i found another one they are both in a blackbirds tummy now i put them on the bird table.
I cant believe anything is alive in this freezing weather.
RF im proud of you mine are in caterpillar heavan to now ;D
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Post by Dutchy on Jan 4, 2008 16:32:23 GMT
As it is clearly not Vine weevil eating your plants I would not bother. The weevils leave absolute perfect rounded holes in the leaves. Almost like a weaver? Bee does. Very neat. You got the caterpillar (which looks like a cabbage white caterpillar  ), just hunt for its relatives and you could be home dry. |
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Post by Ladygardener on Jan 6, 2008 8:42:27 GMT
I've had loads and loads of those little green beggars this year, they're so well camoflaged it's hard to see them but I go around picking them off. They've eaten a lot of my primula's too little monsters.  |
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Jan 6, 2008 8:59:10 GMT
They're the little monsters that have eaten my cabbages...despite them being in a netting cage!
gggrrrrr
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Post by Weeterrier on Jan 6, 2008 10:27:15 GMT
My Primulas always end up looking like that. |
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Thanks
), just hunt for its relatives and you could be home dry.
