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Is Devon different?

Julie354Julie354 Posts: 2
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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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  • pansyfacepansyface Posts: 22,314

    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.image

    Apophthegm -  a big word for a small thought.
    If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
  • Chrissy the gardenerChrissy the gardener Posts: 1,072

    I thought woodlice lived on eating rotting wood and debris, could you maybe have vine weevil in the soil in the pots?

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,300

    My thought as well Chrissy.



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 14,362

    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.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,300

    I'm sure they wouldn't punkdoc



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Fishy65Fishy65 Posts: 2,275

    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.

  • B3B3 Posts: 26,498

    I have industrial quantities of woodlice. They don't eat my plants. I don't bother them  - unless they venture into the house.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 22,863

    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. 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 53,966

    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?  image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 6,902
    Fairygirl says:

    I'm more confused about what a pot full of 'bellies' are?  image

    See original post

     bellis?

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
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