what wallabies DON'T eat
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19 years agoMaryanne_WAustralia
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Comments (3)Last year, which was very wet and cool, we had a terrible infestation of slugs. I saw them eating pretty much anything....See Morewhat plants don't snails and earwigs eat
Comments (9)I am surprised that most of you writing this have snails not eat your salvias. I have two salvias (red flowering kinds) and snails attack them on a daily basis; worse when it is raining daily. I have to pick 4-5 snails from the base of the plant where there is mulch every day or they will climb up the plant and make holes on the leaves. I also pinched the laves from the base of the plants so that it is not dark and protected for the snails to siesta during the day but every time it rains, the snails find their way there. The salvias are flowering nicely but I am sick of snails. I read that snails leave slimy trail behind them as they come to find an edible crop so the next one finds its way by following the trail even if you pick the snails and throw them on to the road (or whatever special way you have of killing them, my favorite is line them in bunch and stomping on them). The good thing is, I only have two of these plants so I can easily get rid of them and replace them with something else. I used snail baits for a while but these things are expensive, though they do work (for a while). I also have read and also believe that poison run off from the snail baits kill earthworms (who wants that?). It also killed the whole nest of birds that were nesting on a loropetalum tree in our garden once, and that was that! I had a lump in my throat for days because I think the mother bird picked some snail baits and took it to the nest to feed the chicks. All three chicks were dead the next day (I found them under the tree, they might have twitched and fell as the poison made them suffer). Back to snails, they dont seem to bother a blue flowering variety of salvia that I also have, this one has sort of hairy leaves. --- Plants I have in my garden that snails DONÂT bother: -Camellia -Azalea -Roses of Sharon (including Jean dÂArc Althea) (they do love to eat the fallen spent flowers but not the plant) -Hibiscus (again, they will eat the fallen spent flowers on the ground) -Gardenia -Jasmine -Rangoon creeper -China doll (planted in the garden) (they ate some leaves touching the ground but gave up) (I think it didnÂt taste delicious the way they have expected) -Japanese magnolia -Poisettia (also planted in the garden) (they might hide under it due to bushy nature of these plants when planted in the garden) (I have found sporadic snails during rainy days under my poinsettias but they never ate the leaves) -Heavenly bamboos (both tall & dwarf varieties) -Duranta erecta (Cuban gold, honey dew drops, & alba I grew them all, although Cuban Golds were killed last winter which was a record breaking freeze) -Ixora -Boxwood -Palm (sago) -Aloe -Impatiens -Ginger (edible) -Butterfly Ginger (flowering type, not the one you eat) -Gladioluses (every now and then a snail will climb on them but donÂt know what they are doing) -Dahlias (though I was warned snails like to eat these but they never bother except for a few holes at the base of the plants) -Mexican heathers -Red Yucca (I did find a slug at the base of the plant but it was just living in the mulch without ever eating the plant) -Spider lilies (they will taste a few leaves to see if they like it, but mainly they will leave these climbers alone) -Sedum (although snails avoid them, birds love them!) (Also snails may taste a few leaves before leaving them alone) -Bleeding hearts (white flowers, red center) -DevilÂs ivy -Mother-in-lawÂs tongues (no pest bothers these poisonous things in my garden, also in outdoors containers) -Weeping fig (Benjamina) -Golden euonymus (I have the dwarf kinds) -Oleanders (the good news is, they donÂt eat the small plants either) -Plumeria -Jade plants -Snake plant -Texas sage -Taro -Calla lilies -Creeping Juniper (Juniperus horizontalis) -Yellow mini-roses -Silvery Sunproof Lily Turf -Hydrangea (snails were present around these but never really bothered them) -Peonies (small one without true leaves are germinated but still havenÂt attacked by snails so I am assuming it is safe to say they wonÂt bother) -Mint -Basil -Thyme -Cilantro --- What snails WILL eat (experience gained from my own garden) -Marigolds (A hungry snails will eat these despite myths that they are repellent to pests) -Salvia (red flowering ones as mentioned before) -Hostas (will destroy them) -Chrysanthemum (they climb onto my outdoors container every day) -Verbenas (I have red flowering creeping kinds) -Justicia Carnea (a beauty but snails destroyed this plant for me) -Hen and chicks (I have the silvery-bluish variety with long stocks with flower-like leaves on top) (they donÂt eat the plant per se but they love the decaying matter found on these weird things) --- Where they love to hide/breed/live (also from experience observing in my garden) -Ajugas (snails donÂt eat them per se but the multiplying nature of this ground cover makes an ideal place for them to hide during the day under well protected moist, dark crowds of ajuga plants, ideal place to breed too since eggs are able to hatch undisturbed here) -Verbenas (if planted in the ground and they creep, covering the ground) -Creeping Juniper (they wonÂt eat these beauties but this creepy grass makes a great place for them to breed/hide during the day, also for overwintering because this thing is evergreen) -Monkey grass (monkey grass looks beautiful along our driveway but the crowded nature of this beauty makes ideal snail breeding ground although they never damage the grass itself, also a great place for snails to overwinter since it is evergreen) -Calla Lilli garden (where a crowd of these are growing along the yard, especially the weedy invasive red flowering kind makes a perfect moist hiding and breeding grown, also overwintering) -Pine bark mulch (yes, pine barks are there to preserve moisture, snails love moisture too, and protection, also ideal place for them to overwinter). --- I hope you find this informative. I donÂt normally have slug (the one without shells) problem but I have a lot of problems with the brown garden snails. Did you know snails are sexless? They can basically reproduce by themselves and they donÂt have a male or female gender. Each snail can breed many more snails no matter what! Urgh!...See More'I don't eat much'
Comments (8)20 some-odd years ago (jeepers, almost 30!) in one of my first restaurant jobs, I worked in a Japanese restaurant. One of my favorite couples had to be between late 70's to mid 80's... The woman only came up to my shoulder. She had been taller in her youth, and in old age had "humped over." She was the sweetest, kindest, most lady like person. She always ordered the combination of tempura and chicken teriyaki. This restaurant served all meals with a noodle "salad" in a vinaigrette, a small side of salt pickled cabbage and another of sweet simmered kidney beans, a bowl of miso soup, rice, and at the end, a dish of fresh fruit. I was in my very early twenties then, and could not have eaten all of it had I ordered a combination plate. And I had a very, very good appetite. That little woman ate all of her sides, drank her soup, finished every scrap of her fried shrimp and veggies, the chicken and the huge mound of cabbage salad we served on the plate. She then ate her fruit, and more often than not, her husband's. Don't know where she put it, or, considering how slowly she moved around, how she burnt it off. The important thing, I thought, was that she thoroughly enjoyed it....See MoreDon't Know if You Can Really 'Train' Palamedes Cats to Eat Sassafras..
Comments (6)You understood me exactly right, four. It would be better for palamedes swallowtails if they'd lay at least part of their eggs on sassafras, which, so far, hasn't suffered from the red bay disease. The two cats in the picture both ate a LOT of sassafras, pupated, and made perfect palamedes swallowtails, one male and one female. I've known for a long time that palamedes cats would gladly eat sassafras, but I've never found any palamedes eggs or cats on sassafras, so the females apparently don't consider it for egg laying, at least so far. Unfortunately, I've seen very few palamedes swallowtail adults since those two emerged. I saw one a couple of weeks ago, and I think I saw one crossing the road today. I've looked on the redbay regrowth at the base of the dead trees and haven't found any eggs or cats. I found a spicebush cat on some sassafras in my garden, but it's definitely a spicebush cat. Sherry...See Morekarnyah
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