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What's eating my plants

peteSpeteS Posts: 966
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Is this slug/snail or caterpillar damage on my argyranthemum. Other plants have been ravaged as well, including the unopened buds on my pelagoniums.

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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    The stem damage looks typical of molluscs but the petal damage looks very much like that caused by earwigs.
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  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    I agree Bob ,those pesky earwigs on the petals are a dratted nuisance (to put it politely). 

  • peteSpeteS Posts: 966
    @AnniD @BobTheGardener....cheers for that...I never thought of earwigs. Small upturned plant pots on canes I believe will catch the blighters.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    You need to fill them with straw.
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  • peteSpeteS Posts: 966
    @Obelixx...I've no straw, but I've put out pots filled with shredded paper. Hopefully that'll do the trick.
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