OT: pillbugs
From: "Martha Brown" <mbrown@pldi.net>
>> Or, could it have
>>been eaten at the soil surface by pillbugs/rolly-pollys??? What is the
best
>>remedy for those bugs in the garden? They are everywhere in all my
gardens
>>in large quantitites.
>
>I'm no insect expert (entomologist?), but I am under the impression that
>these little bugs are good bugs. Good for the garden like worms are. They
>eat decaying plant stuff and convert it into bug poop which is dynamite
>fertilizer for your plants. So you should be glad they are everywhere.
>Besides, I don't even think even nuclear weapons could get rid of them. :)
>
Slug and snail bait supposedly will help. According to the experts they
will only eat dead and decaying plant material but I have had them chew
through the stems of newly planted Cardinal flowers and devour nearly ripe
strawberries and tomatoes. These are the only times I have caught them in
the act but I have wondered about other plants with the same type of damage.
Martha
M Brown
NW Oklahoma, USA
USDA Zone 6b, Sunset Zone 35
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