Is Devon different?
Experienced gardener. Never ever had so so many plants disappear within 24 hours! Flowering, healthy, upright. Next day or as in today, I watched a lovely pot full of bellies wilt away. I KNEW what had happened! Same as my stocks, sweet Williams. Nasty woodlice, million's of them. Big buggers, baby buggers. Help. Done all the RHS advised. No joy.
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WHAT YOU NEED ARE SOME DYSDERA CROCATA OR WOODLOUSE SPIDER.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlouse_spider
THEY WILL GOBBLE THEM UP FOR YOU.
AND SHREWS EAT THEM TOO. SO GET SOME SHREWS.
If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
I thought woodlice lived on eating rotting wood and debris, could you maybe have vine weevil in the soil in the pots?
My thought as well Chrissy.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I am not sure I believe this.
I think Woodlice may eat damaged or decaying plants, but I just don't think they would demolish whole healthy plants overnight.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I'm sure they wouldn't punkdoc
In the sticks near Peterborough
Have to agree about woodlice, they eat decaying plant matter. Rotting leaves also paper/cardboard that gets chucked in the compost bin. Vine weevil is the culprit I would wager.
I have industrial quantities of woodlice. They don't eat my plants. I don't bother them - unless they venture into the house.
I am a Devon gardener and I can vouch for the fact that Devon is different, never do our woodlice eat plants in a day like yours.
I'd have nothing in my garden if woodlice ate plants! Definitely sounds more like the weevil.
I'm more confused about what a pot full of 'bellies' are?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
bellis?