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Old 03-10-2007, 02:28 PM posted to aus.gardens
Jonno[_9_] Jonno[_9_] is offline
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Default Slater aka wood louse



Organic matter attracts slaters, which play an important role in
breaking it down, but unfortunately they do munch on young seedlings.
Staycalm wrote:
These came up in another post. Do they do any damage to plants? I seem to
have quite few in the mulch on my veggie patch. Should I be worried?

Liz