Hello there friends! Can somebody help me identify what is eating my beautiful plants? The Clematis is the most severely damaged...But this pest eats almost everything! I have used kitchen soap and "End All" by Safer's to no avail. Please help! Thank you, Eva
I am seeing that kind of damage in my some of my beds too. A pest I don't see that eats everything. I am guessing slugs, but I have not put out any traps yet to see for sure. If it is slugs you will find them feeding at night and probably see slime trails in the morning. If you find slugs (even if you don't, because they are probably in the garden somewhere) you can put out baited traps for them. Put beer or a mix of water, flour and yeast (not too much flour--you want a very liquid paste) into cups, sunk into the ground so the top is at surface level. Slugs find these baits irresistable and climb into the cups and drown.
Dear Eric, Thank you for your quick reply. I will try to find the culprits tonight! I hope you are right about the slugs. And I will deffinately try the recipe you suggested! Eva
Here some pics of what heat and drought stress can look like on trees and I see it on smaller plants all the time. Unusual holes near the leaf viens and deformed leaves, resembling insect damage. Although the plant with the yellow flower looks more like root weevils, some of the other pics resemble drought, slugs generally leave a shiny slime across the plants.,, jim
