Swarming Slaters eating plants - HELP
 

"Mentally Jones II¾" writes:
I have a severe slater problem - they are eating just about
everything.
At night the ground is crawling with them & they even climb up the
plants then eat the leaves off.

Your worries haven't started yet. When they've consumed all your
plants they're sure to come looking for you.

How can I control them without poisons (if possible).

I'll send you a dozen funnel web spiders if you like; they make short
work of slaters. But only one at a time.

If you have plenty of concrete pathway maybe you could go out at night
and hoover them up as they cross the paths if they are migrating from
bushland into your garden. (But a flamethrower would be more fun.) Or
are they coming from within your compost?

Slaters have only short legs, so maybe you could enclose a few most
prized plants with a portion of plastic softdrink bottle -- with top
and bottom removed and pushed into the soil so slaters can't bulldoze
their way under it?

Newsgroups trimmed to the couple I sometimes post to.
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)

Swarming Slaters eating plants - HELP
 

Hold the (friendly? Fire) flame throwers.
Read this item and you wont be so quick to burn down the chook shed and
all those that inhabit the said establishment.
These littly grey nasty little critters may be useful.


http://www.ento.csiro.au/education/allies/isopoda.html

Swarming Slaters eating plants - HELP
 

Jonno wrote:
Hold the (friendly? Fire) flame throwers.
Read this item and you wont be so quick to burn down the chook shed and
all those that inhabit the said establishment.
These littly grey nasty little critters may be useful.


http://www.ento.csiro.au/education/allies/isopoda.html
On second thought, theyre ugly! Put em on televison with bert newton and
the ratings will destroy em.

Swarming Slaters eating plants - HELP
 

Jonno wrote:

Jonno wrote:

Hold the (friendly? Fire) flame throwers.
Read this item and you wont be so quick to burn down the chook shed
and all those that inhabit the said establishment.
These littly grey nasty little critters may be useful.


http://www.ento.csiro.au/education/allies/isopoda.html

On second thought, theyre ugly! Put em on televison with bert newton and
the ratings will destroy em.

Some folks keep the Madagascar and other types for pets. They are bigger
than golf balls!

Carl


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Swarming Slaters eating plants - HELP
 

Carl 1 Lucky Texan wrote:
Jonno wrote:

Jonno wrote:

Hold the (friendly? Fire) flame throwers.
Read this item and you wont be so quick to burn down the chook shed
and all those that inhabit the said establishment.
These littly grey nasty little critters may be useful.


http://www.ento.csiro.au/education/allies/isopoda.html


On second thought, theyre ugly! Put em on televison with bert newton
and the ratings will destroy em.


Some folks keep the Madagascar and other types for pets. They are bigger
than golf balls!

Carl


Er play golf with em? Theyd beat me for sure. Good idea for some...

Swarming Slaters eating plants - HELP
 

Jonno wrote:

Carl 1 Lucky Texan wrote:

Jonno wrote:

Jonno wrote:

Hold the (friendly? Fire) flame throwers.
Read this item and you wont be so quick to burn down the chook shed
and all those that inhabit the said establishment.
These littly grey nasty little critters may be useful.


http://www.ento.csiro.au/education/allies/isopoda.html



On second thought, theyre ugly! Put em on televison with bert newton
and the ratings will destroy em.



Some folks keep the Madagascar and other types for pets. They are
bigger than golf balls!

Carl


Er play golf with em? Theyd beat me for sure. Good idea for some...

http://mirukashihime.cool.ne.jp/image/borne29.JPG


Carl


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Swarming Slaters eating plants - HELP
 

Carl 1 Lucky Texan wrote:
Jonno wrote:

Carl 1 Lucky Texan wrote:

Jonno wrote:

Jonno wrote:

Hold the (friendly? Fire) flame throwers.
Read this item and you wont be so quick to burn down the chook shed
and all those that inhabit the said establishment.
These littly grey nasty little critters may be useful.


http://www.ento.csiro.au/education/allies/isopoda.html




On second thought, theyre ugly! Put em on televison with bert newton
and the ratings will destroy em.




Some folks keep the Madagascar and other types for pets. They are
bigger than golf balls!

Carl


Er play golf with em? Theyd beat me for sure. Good idea for some...


http://mirukashihime.cool.ne.jp/image/borne29.JPG


Carl


UUUUUGLY!

Swarming Slaters eating plants - HELP
 

Jonno wrote:

Carl 1 Lucky Texan wrote:

Jonno wrote:

Carl 1 Lucky Texan wrote:

Jonno wrote:

Jonno wrote:

Hold the (friendly? Fire) flame throwers.
Read this item and you wont be so quick to burn down the chook
shed and all those that inhabit the said establishment.
These littly grey nasty little critters may be useful.


http://www.ento.csiro.au/education/allies/isopoda.html





On second thought, theyre ugly! Put em on televison with bert
newton and the ratings will destroy em.





Some folks keep the Madagascar and other types for pets. They are
bigger than golf balls!

Carl


Er play golf with em? Theyd beat me for sure. Good idea for some...



http://mirukashihime.cool.ne.jp/image/borne29.JPG


Carl


UUUUUGLY!

Some are green or orange. Do a google image search on 'pill millipede'
and 'pill bug' .

Carl


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Carl 1 Lucky Texan wrote:



http://mirukashihime.cool.ne.jp/image/borne29.JPG


Aaargh! (Anybody got a recipe with those in it?)

L.

Swarming Slaters eating plants - HELP
 

Linda H wrote:
Carl 1 Lucky Texan wrote:



http://mirukashihime.cool.ne.jp/image/borne29.JPG



Aaargh! (Anybody got a recipe with those in it?)

L.
Only women think of recipes at a time like this. Its horrible.
Dim Sims anyone?

Swarming Slaters eating plants - HELP
 

Jonno wrote:


Only women think of recipes at a time like this. Its horrible.
Dim Sims anyone?


And only men think of take-away food at a time like this. Even horrible-er!

Oh... and sport - men also think of sport in dire times. Bocce anyone?


L.

Swarming Slaters eating plants - HELP
 

Linda H wrote:
Jonno wrote:


Only women think of recipes at a time like this. Its horrible.
Dim Sims anyone?



And only men think of take-away food at a time like this. Even
horrible-er!

Oh... and sport - men also think of sport in dire times. Bocce anyone?


L.
Er no sports, only indoor ones...
you forgot that one!!!
er forget it. Even these poor critturs have s e x

Swarming Slaters eating plants - HELP
 

Jonno wrote:
Hold the (friendly? Fire) flame throwers.
Read this item and you wont be so quick to burn down the chook shed and
all those that inhabit the said establishment.
These littly grey nasty little critters may be useful.


http://www.ento.csiro.au/education/allies/isopoda.html

I have the slaters mentioned in the above article. They live in my
compost bin, I like them as they help break down the junk I put in there
and make it into compost.

The vegetable garden is 3'/1metre away and they never invade it.

You must have something else that is also called slaters.

OTOH, we average 10 "whitchity/white grubs" to the square foot and they
can be hell on seedlings. Unfortunately the cat only eats about 1 per
month.