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Re: Viola eating insects

At 08:33 AM 7/18/97 -0500, you wrote:
>I find a lot of drowned pillbugs in the saucer of beer put out for
>slugs.
>--Kathy K, mid-Missouri, zone 5
>
>Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Amy Rupp answered a ? about chewed violas:
>    > The thing that eats my viola family plants is PILLBUGS or sowbugs.
>> Nasty beasts.  Control is traps, DE, or, if able to take the non-organic
>> approach, slug-n-snail bait, which is very toxic to pets.
>> -- 
>> Amy Moseley Rupp
>> amyr@austx.tandem.com, Austin, TX, USDA zone 8b, Sunset zone 30
>> *or* amyr@mpd.tandem.com
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Amy, hate to add to your cold wobblies, but in Britain pillbugs are called
wood lice.  Itchy, itchy.  They're very cheap lab animals, though, and are
used in elementary psych lab experiments.  They eat decaying vegetation.
Now granted their idea of decaying and ours may differ, since they eat ripe
strawberries on the vine, but I can't imagine their eating violet leaves.
Are you sure something else didn't eat them and the pillbugs were just
caught in the headlights?  Margaret
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