Bug that lives in my Hosta!

Is it one of those my dogs are holding on my photo ? Lol.
Toto will know...

Oh TT, I never thought of that! I hope he never gets THAT big!! He'd flatten my plants!!

Let's hope he has no large relatives lurking around. Lol.

:-/......

It's a vine weevil.
KILL IT NOW ! It will lay eggs in all your pots and the larvae will eat away all the roots.

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OMG Hywel...I didn't realise!! Watered tonight and didn't see it....my poor plants. :o(( Must go and look....

Well done Hywel.....you beat me to it KILL KILL KILL......

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:o( Oh help, have searched the pot I saw it in and can't find it! :o(
What if it's got in another one. :o( :o( :o( :o( Is there anything I can apply to the soil to get rid of it/them???

Hywel... where are you? Pg needs advice. NOW.
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Here I am :o)
You can buy stuff called Vine Weevil Killer. It's a liquid and you mix it in a watering can, then apply it to the pots.

The liquid contains parasitic nematodes ( like microscopic round worms ) and they eat the larvae of the vine weevils.

KILL ALL the vine weevils you see.

Are we likely to confuse vine weevils with any other harmless beetles ? :o(
That one in the pic. appears to be black with a spotted body. Is that what it looks like in reality ?

Thank you, thank you, (bowing as I speak!!!)....so grateful Hywel...will get some tomorrow when in town. Would be devastated to lose my plants, they have done so well this year. I have 40 pots now and 5 troughs...that's a lot to lose!!! Can I get it anywhere? I guess so, don't have to send away or anything?

It does have a spotted body TT, may-be that is what differentiates it from other 'beetles'....?

Thanks. I'll know what to look out for...... :o(
Probably easier to eliminate from pots than from garden beds....
Let us know how you get on please....

Will do TT, Hywel's recommendation is top of my shopping list tomorrow! :o)

You can get the liquid in most places.

There are lots of different weevils but I think this is the most common in gardens. If you google ' weevil ' you'll find a page with lots of photos of different ones. Vine weevils can be spotty sometimes, or just black.

Good luck. I hope you kill them all, but the liquid will kill the larvae.

Here it is Paul :o(

Found it at last.Tt. Yes the dreaded VW (they make a different kind of Beetle called Herbie don't they?) Yes he's best rid of else he'll (or offspring) eat the roots and before you know it , no more Hosta!

Do they attack all plants ?

Think so. Particularly pot grown ones!

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It's 10.15pm and I've just come in from vine weevil patrol! I was told my Hosta's and Heuchera's were the most susceptible (also cyclamen but I have not got one). So I have treated them and also my white lily, as I saw a VW on it! I stayed outside and have killed 5 adults altogether!!!

Hywel ~ I could not get the treatment you mentioned, only a chemical one. Short of time to search local garden centres and fearing for my plants I reluctantly opted for it. I cannot use it on any edible plants so will have to hope my herbs are OK. I will look out for the parasitic nematodes one for future use.
Tomorrow I will treat the rest of my pots, as I clearly have a problem! :o( :o(

Thank you all for the advice and sympathy!!

Hope you successfully get rid of this pest, PG. If it wasn't for GoY I would have been overrun with the dreaded lily beetle this year. I didn't realise the pretty little red things were damaging my plants!

I knew about VW's, but not what they looked like! I thought it was cute that this thing lived in my plant and popped up when I watered! How wrong was I?! I found a lily beetle too, several months ago. Like you had it not been for GoY where I had seen warnings I would have thought that cute too!