But for commercial growers they are a very real problem. The ornamental plant industry is worth about £800m a year in the UK and weevils do £20m of damage a year. If a grower sends plants to a ...

Slugs can be very destructive if they're not controlled in some way, however despite there being around 40 species of slugs in the UK, only a small ... pest is the Vine Weevil.

Scientists and associates of the Natural History Museum described more than 800 new species in 2023 ... and four long-snouted weevils from South Africa. Also described in scientific papers ...

There are an estimated 83,000 species of true weevil (Curculionidae), making them the largest taxonomic family of beetles. About 480 species of weevil can be found in the UK. Several weevil species ...