A couple of weeks ago, I whined that our rhubarb was dying and we couldn't
understand why.
My husband conducted a post-mortem today and found *termites* (at least
they looked like termites). They'd attacked each plant at the crown and
worked their way down inside the roots. Weird.

Dora

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"limey" > wrote:

> A couple of weeks ago, I whined that our rhubarb was dying and we couldn't
> understand why.
> My husband conducted a post-mortem today and found *termites* (at least
> they looked like termites). They'd attacked each plant at the crown and
> worked their way down inside the roots. Weird.

Sounds like rhubarb curculio--they burrow in from top down.
<http://www.rhubarbinfo.com/images/curculio.jpg>

You have to take them off by hand. You don't have any dock growing
nearby, do you?

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