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Re: Centipedes

This Oregon gardener encourages them...they are always in healthy looking soil
and in piles of leaves.  I didn't know they ate slug eggs, but power to them.
Between garden snakes, spiders and wild birds...and the soil insects, I don't
have a big slug problem...some of course, but I make 11 PM forays with a
flashlight and toilet paper if they get to finger painting on the house..then I
flush them down the john.  In the daytime I squash them quickly with my garden
boots.  People remark on our healthy looking foliage, so I must be doing
something right...and it doesn't come out of a can...exept for yellow jacket
nests in the ground...being allergic to stings and they are mean.  Hornets
built a huge nest in a corner of the front porch...it was a work of art.  They
were the good kind that eat insects and never once did they get irritated with
us as we munched our burgers off the barbie.  I try to educate myself on good
insects and bad and pinch the heads off the bad.  Always afraid I'll kill a
butterfly larva.  I found a hatch of cucumber beetle larva on a perennial..so
after researching them on the internet, I found they lay their eggs in the
soil, I picked the infested foliage and worms off before they had a chance to
go to ground, put them in a plastic bag and into the garbage.  The next year
they didn't show up at all.  With a 2 acre garden I need all the help I can get
from nature!  And I'd rather buy plants than poisons.  Will somebody pull this
soapbox out from under me?

Mary Misel wrote:

> Wow!!! Send them to me in Oregon then-- I just got ducks for the slugs but
> centipedes would be a lot easier to care for and the Northwest has
> plenty-o-slugs.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DScha62861 <DScha62861@aol.com>
> To: seeds-list@eskimo.com <seeds-list@eskimo.com>
> Date: Monday, May 18, 1998 9:34 AM
> Subject: Re: Centipedes
>
> >Hmmmm -- and my Rodale's Landscape Problem Solver  says they prey on slugs
> or
> >slug eggs.
> >
> >
> >Deb(whos new to the list)
> >
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