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    Horrible little black bugs in the top of my strawbs - any prevention?

  • #2
    There are vine weevil nematodes available. The adults are a bit of a pain ... surprised you can 'see' them though...quite fast/shy as a rule..... It is the grubs eating all the roots over winter that is the real problem.

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    • #3
      Depends on what the bugs are. Do you have an accurate description or better still a photo?

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      • #4
        short (couple of mm) jet black bugs, no legs. They are eating away at the top of the fruit

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        • #5
          They're not vine weevils then. Could be pollen beetles Pollen Beetle - Meligethes aeneus | NatureSpot

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          • #6
            Sorry these are not the fellas, my chaps have no discernible legs

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            • #7
              Pollen beetles are really small, about the size you said, and as they are so small it's hard to see their legs.

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              • #8
                could be, how do I get rid of them?

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                • #9
                  Not sure Binco, I've been googling but most of the information seems to be for commercial growers of oilseed rape.

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                  • #10
                    Are they eating the strawberries, Binco? Or just crawling around on them.
                    Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?

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                    • #11
                      What do baby woodlice look like?

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                      • #12
                        They look just the same as adults but smaller VC!
                        Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?

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                        • #13
                          I wondered whether they came in teeny weeny sizes that could be mistaken for legless little black bugs Woodlice nibble the guts out of my strawbs

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                          • #14
                            Not sure Binco, I've been googling but most of the information seems to be for commercial growers of oilseed rape.

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                            • #15
                              I think these sound like like thunder bugs/fruitflies type of thing....and similar to woodlice are only opportunistic. ie They just go for damaged by slug/bird or rotting ones.

                              I have never seen flea beetle on straws (if that is what we're driving at with oil seed rape line)

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