Here is a picture of the bugs. http://farleybwd.deviantart.com/art/Bugs-164380471 Here is a picture of what they've done to the climbing hydrangea. http://farleybwd.deviantart.com/art/Climbing-Hydrangea-164380154 Does anyone know what these bugs are and how to keep them from destroying my two year old climbing hydrangea. Any solutions (preferably organic)? Thank you!
I completely misread the title of this thread and clicked on it with joy, as we are infested with climbing hydrangea; it took my neighbour and me an entire weekend to clear enough of it so the man could mend the fence it was destroying. We didn't get it all, I saw it when I was hanging out washing, and came indoors and hid. Looks like vine weevils to me. If you have that many adults you may have a problem, their grubs are hugely destructive. There is a nematode treatment, to be applied about now, depending on frosts and such. The old gardening books recommend shaking the branches over a sheet at night (the adults are nocturnal) and destroying the collection. A bucket would do on a small plant, then topped up from the kettle. There is no kind way. They aren't speedy, so search and destroy may be the way. I have no idea what they do during the day, lurk in dark corners, plotting, I expect.
