Share The Seeds

Gardening Area => Plant Pests & Infections => Topic started by: LIBERTYNY on June 20, 2017, 06:40:28 AM

Title: Trich seedlings eaten ?
Post by: LIBERTYNY on June 20, 2017, 06:40:28 AM

  What kind of bug takes 1/4"  bites out of trich seedlings ? ?

 Photo's suck but their all I got

 :'(

Title: Re: Trich seedlings eaten ?
Post by: DansMaTete on June 20, 2017, 05:40:04 PM
Slugs ? Caterpillar ?

Title: Re: Trich seedlings eaten ?
Post by: GrowerAndaShower on August 23, 2017, 09:58:06 PM
Slugs is my guess, I had similar wounds on my Bridgesii and the next night I found a Limax maximus(Leopard Slug, Great Grey Slug) all up in it's business. He was relocated to the other side of town(I'm a bit of a pacifist, especially with anything bigger than 1/4 inch...) and I haven't had any trouble since.

Here's a pic of one with someone's hand for scale, in case you haven't seen them. They're all over the place out here. http://www.shropscwgs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Limax-maximus-250812-007.jpg  (Not my pic, just googled it.)
Title: Re: Trich seedlings eaten ?
Post by: Dexter123 on September 25, 2017, 10:21:38 PM
My first instinct says slugs as well.

GrowerAndaShower, out of curiosity, is there a specific reason not to kill slugs over 1/4 of an inch? do they provide some benefit to the environment, or is this just a preference?

Im not that much of a pacifist when they are eating my plants, but, i would really hate to wipe out a whole local ecosystem on accident. >.<