Re: poss. stem borers and slugs was: Losing Salvia officinalis

Got a point there, Jean...

Did a bit of web searching.  Found a bunch of info and photos on Southern
Blight and one of the frass produced by a borer...so, Holly, take a peek
and see if anything looks like your problem.

http://www.ifas.ufl.edu/~fairsweb/TEXT/PG/14995.HTML - text description of
Southern Blight

http://www.ifas.ufl.edu/~fairsweb/TEXT/PG/14337.HTML - another text
description of SB with controls

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/pp/notes/Soybean/soy005/img_rolf.htm - photo
of SB on soybean

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/imagemap/mgmaps/tomroot/23.1.html -
photo of SB on something

http://cygnus.tamu.edu/Texlab/Multicrop/sb.html - photos and text on SB

Here's a photo of the frass from a European Corn Borer on Shasta Daisy

http://ipmwww.ncsu.edu/current_ipm/96PestNews/News19/ecbor4.jpg

In the process of doing this search, found a lovely list of images of
assorted pests of ornamentals on the Departments of Plant Pathology and
Entomology, North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service of North Carolina
State University pages - nice to have in the old bookmarks for the next
time some varmint needs IDing.

http://ipmwww.ncsu.edu/current_ipm/otimages.htm

The front page to this section has a bit about the European Corn Borer
(scroll down) and how when corn isn't available, it attacks around 200
different plants including chrysanthemums, asters, cosmos, dahlia,
gladioli, hollyhocks, roses, zinnias....something I did not know; nasty
little blighter...hated it when I grew corn and, it seems, with good
reason!  Interesting little blurb with links to photos of the pest,
including the one in the link above.

http://ipmwww.ncsu.edu/current_ipm/97PestNews/97News12/ornament.html

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
(who is convinced that anything you want to know about is on the web
somewhere)
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> From: Jean Carpenter <backhoe@scan.missouri.org>
> Date: Thursday, August 26, 1999 11:20 PM
> 
> Holly, and Marge
>     Could the problem be southern blight? It creates little white stuff
> around the bottom of the stem on hosta and causes the stems to rot off.
Just
> wondering.
> Jean

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