Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 11:57:00 PST From: "Trent Meeks" <flaneps@hotmail.com> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg696$foo@default> Subject: Re: slugs and other pests
>blooms. I knew slugs loved them from past experience. I have more blooms on
>my Sarracenia this year, than in recent memory. So its war now.
Lots o' flowers this year on my Sarracenias. One rubra gulfensis has about
ten flowers opening now! No slugs, but I get snails. Luckily, they have a
hard time getting to the Sarracenias because I grow them in trays.
>The beer trick works well. Another tip is to place your Sarrs in
>large, non-draining pots of water. The moat you create will not allow the
>slugs to cross (without drowning). Feed the dead slugs to your Sarr
>pitchers. They'll thank-you for it :-)!
The snails wreck havoc in the lathe house on the Nepenthes. I've
successfully used the beer method, but the beer attracts oppossums. The next
morning I'll find the beer dishes completely drained. I also find pots
turned over and all the usual signs of oppossum activity. Of course after
drinking all the beer, they tend to get a little disorderly.
Birds can be a pest, often going for the insects in the pitchers.
>I have extra problems with racoons, so I basically 'cage' my bog with
>chicken wire. Not the most attractive solution, but it works.
I have racoons too, but they seem to be tea toodlers. No beer drinking.
I am constantly at war with the critters, and I live in the middle of the
city! The only way I've found to get rid of them is to trap them, and
transport them to park areas not-so-nearby.
until later,
Trent Meeks
Pompano Beach, Florida
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