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Re: Viola eating insects

> pillbugs or sowbugs do not eat plants.
> they feed on bacteria and fungi.
> slugs might be eating them, or some form of catipillare but not the sow bugs.

Uh, please tell that to the pansies and violas my sowbugs/pillbugs
devoured.  They are supposed to be saprophytic, but they will destroy
hostas and particularly members of the viola family.  To test my theory,
I planted big healthy 4" pansies and waited.  Two hours later, the
pillbugs were carrying off stems they'd nibbled off.  No lie.

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Amy Moseley Rupp
amyr@austx.tandem.com, Austin, TX, USDA zone 8b, Sunset zone 30
*or* amyr@mpd.tandem.com
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