Re: borer damage in stalks


Yours was the first mention of a pest other than the borer, Dorothy. What
zone do you garden in? How far up the stem have you observed the slugs
damage? Thanks for your helpful note.

Jody Camille

On Sun, 9 Apr 2000 dwiris@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 4/9/00 1:28:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> awheele2@abacus.bates.edu writes:
> 
> << However, something breaks the iris stem just
>  > > below the blossom.  The iris blooms and hangs over.  The blossom is
>  > > intact and whole but the base of it is gone.  What kind of critter is
>  > > doing this? >>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Maybe I missed it, but I haven't seen mention of another possibility for this 
> damage.  We often have slugs that eat through tender iris stems.
> 
> Dorothy Willott
> 
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