Nemasysvine weevil killer 12sq m - same-day despatch for Insects

Worked perfectly

After another find of Vine Weevils, this time in my strawberry raised bed, action was required. Nematodes seemed to be the answer as they only target the vine weevil grubs and no other creatures are harmed. I placed an order which arrived before the expected timeline, well packaged. Id previously read that if not being used immediately, to refrigerate them, which I did untill I was ready to use . I didn't open the package immediately but knew they were to be mixed with water when just about to use . Once opening the package and reading the instructions, I realised that the weather conditions weren't suitable. Luckily the use by date gave enough time for the forecast rain to come. The film in the actual container was fiddly to open but if you carefully read and follow the instructions, everything else was quite straightforward. I don't know yet if/ how effective the nematodes are but I expect another application will be required in a few months.

Vine weevils are not the easiest to get rid of, particularly on food crops such as strawberries in containers. All container plants seem to be at risk. The first sign is usually poor or no growth in spring and investigation finds plants with little or no root and white grubs.With effective chemical treatments usually unsafe for food plants one solution was to dig plants up, remove all soil and grubs, wash the roots, and replant in clean soil, which sets back the plants for weeks.The use of nematodes is simpler. Water them in and let them do their work eliminating the grubs. It is a simple and effective solution, chemical free, ecologically sound and perfectly safe which seems to work well. The supplied nematodes will only attack the grubs not the plants . . . the plants will have their own nematodes!If nematodes are new to you they are the most numerous species on the planet with an estimated 60 billion for each human and can be found everywhere and in everything, including each of us.

This works brilliantly. There were none of the little critters in the begonias when I cleaned and dried them for the winter storage.Absolutely amazing 👍🏼

I've used these for a couple of years now, since we got our vine weevil colony!In the absence of any real treatments, I apply these critturs twice....early and later summer.They're invisible to the naked eye and when they're watered in so I've no (eye)dea whether they are in the stuff I carefully mix and apply, or whether they are doing what they are supposed to be doing?I also go out every night just as it becomes dark and pick any and all weevils off the plants and kill them.I suspect this is what is keeping down the numbers......but I continue to hope the nemotodes are making my twilight assassination a shorter event than might otherwise be necessary!!

I haven't eradicated these totally but a huge improvement. This spring I did a check of all my pots and did find a few grubs so have repotted them all after a healthcheck. It's now almost September and I haven't noticed any adult damage on plants and have only found one adult. I will use this again soon to keep them free. Also great to know I am not harming beneficial insects.

Only gave this 4* as I also went on the attack (squishing any adults I found) so I am not sure if it would have been as affective if left to it’s own devices but…I had been overtaken by vine weevils in 3 pots and I was regularly finding 30 adult weevils a day in each pot. So i bought this to try. After about 1 week I was noticing the numbers were declining and by week 3 I was finding maybe 3 a day per pot. I have now gone 2 weeks with only finding one adult weevil. I was definitely fighting a loosing battle just trying to squish them but once I introduced these natural weevil killers I started to win.I will say that you MUST keep the water moist like the pack says and that it is a NIGHTMARE trying to figure out how much you need per pot though. In the end, I made the entire solution up and split it between the 3 large pots. I figured there was no such thing as too much but too little would have made it pointless.I am going to buy some more and do another treatment in a month to try and completely cover my bases.

Great for controlling Vine Weevil, easy to use.