See no weevil.(News)

From: Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales) | Date: August 22, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: By Hannah Stephenson

Have your container plants not performed well this year, even though you've fed and watered them thoroughly?

If there are visible signs, such as aphids growing up the stems, you will already know what the problem is.

But sometimes the culprit lies underneath the soil and the only symptoms will be bites out of the leaf until your plant withers and dies. The offender is most likely to be the vine weevil (Otiorhynchus sulc...

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