House foundation and bugs.

12 years ago

Mainly this comes from my newly acquired hobby of reducing the black vine weevil from the potted containers around my house. I've hypothesized that perhaps they are hiding in my foundation/crawlspace? It's fairly large under the house, in some places I can almost stand up (it's a very small house). There are other things under there too, some harvestmen spider colonies for sure, possibly the potato bugs and my (rather illogically) feared earwigs, who knows what else hides under there (a mouse)?

OK so my questions: Are the weevils hiding under there? I see them crawling up the side of my house sometimes. Should I dig the grass away from the foundation? Should I be worried about anything else that could be hiding under there? So far the only thing that seems to make an appearance inside the house are the spiders (what are they eating?).

Any advise or comments are welcome ;)

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rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
12 years ago
BVW won't be hiding out in the crawl space unless you have their favorite plants under there. What kind of plants do you have in proximity to your home?

Several kinds of critters try and sometimes succeed in entering our homes. They do it because they can! When our homes aren't sealed tightly, they squirm in.

Inventory your landscape to see if you have any of their favorite host plants and think about eliminating them.

Make sure that your doors and windows are tight.....maybe some caulking is needed, or weather stripping under and around the doors.

Inside, get the vacuum out!
sphinx_face
Original Author
12 years ago
They've demolished my rhubarb! I've seen them sparsely munching on my rose, lunaria/honesty, and I see a little notching on the rhodie but haven't picked any off there yet. I recently planted a filbert sprout which which they are despite being on the side of the house with no other plants or containers, it probably won't make it now... They also ate some laurel I sprouted... I'm having no luck with laurel from various issues I will probably make another post about that...

Anyway, so I don't have to worry so much about the containers near the house?
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sphinx_face
Original Author
12 years ago
Also since I have no idea where to ask this... Is there a way to easily find your own posts? I know I can have replies e-mailed but is there any quick link area? I always have a hard time finding my own posts...
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
12 years ago
my newly acquired hobby of reducing the black vine weevil

==>>> ok.. thats a hobby i never heard of.. lol ..

there is a GW search engine.. top right.. put your own name in it .. not very powerful ...

google your GW name with 'gardeweb' etc ...

or just make a folder in your bookmarks.. and save them ...

and one good trick.. is to use great titles.. like this one might be better title about BVW ... so people who search could find it on that topic ... meaning.. searching for them helps when you remember the title .... and a year from now.. you are going to be thinking BVW.. not foundations ... or not ...

ken

ps: there is also something about 'clippings' here on GW .. that i never learned about ... which might be useful ..