Strawberry root weevil?

[dave_norm_smith]

Hi
I have just been repotting my strawberry plants and noticed quite a few white maggots but with a different head type. After hitting the books to no avail I checked the internet to discover a new beasty to myself - the strawberry root weevil.

I had put down the steady decline in my container strawberry stock to their age but it appears these little beggars may also be to blame. Anyway, they are all out that I could see, awaiting the blackbirds but having no experience of them should I be looking to try the nematodes for weevils? Has anybody else tried them and at £12.50 a pop, did it work?

It's bad enough trying to get past the kids to get a strawberry, I'll be blowed if I'm sharing them with these fish bait!

[salome2001]

strawberry root weevil or just bog standard vine weevil???

(in which case number 2 on my most hated, just after slugs, as they decimated MY container strawberries last year). I binned the lot and planted new strawbs in new compost watered in the nematode killer.

[Two_Sheds]

That's a new one on me, but whatever kind of weevil it is the damage is the same. Each adult lays 100s of eggs, so kill as many adults as you can: find them crawling up walls at night
Weevils