Figwort weevils

Symptoms
Foliage is eaten and dried up, particularly at the shoot tips, and flower buds are damaged. The larvae feed on leaves by grazing the surface of the leaf.

Spot them
The adult beetles are 4-5 mm long, black and greyish white with one or two black circular marks on wings. The larvae are up to 6mm long and are slimy, yellowish-brown grubs with black heads. When fully grown the larvae spin spherical brownish cocoons, in which they pupate, on the plant stems; these cocoons closely resemble the seed pods of figwort.