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Swarming Slaters eating plants - HELP
"Mentally Jones IIž" 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) |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 -- to reply, change ( .not) to ( .net) |
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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... |
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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 -- to reply, change ( .not) to ( .net) |
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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! |
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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 -- to reply, change ( .not) to ( .net) |
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Swarming Slaters eating plants - HELP
Carl 1 Lucky Texan wrote:
http://mirukashihime.cool.ne.jp/image/borne29.JPG Aaargh! (Anybody got a recipe with those in it?) L. |
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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? |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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