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Wed, May 22, 13 at 14:17
| I have ten dahlias in my flower bed that I started from seed. They have been doing just fine up until today. I checked on them this morning and some pest has eaten all of the new growth on the plants. I have inspected the area for pests and have only seen rolie polies. Could they be the culprit?? |
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| Hard to say. You need to go out at night and check the plants. There are lots and lots of critters that do their damage after the sun goes down and then disappear during the day. I had this problem with a goldenrod. The poor thing was almost stripped of foliage, but I could never see any insect. Then I checked really, really early one morning and found the plant covered in crawlers. Kevin |
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| They could be, they were chomping on my heleniums earlier in the year. It is just as likely that it is something else, though, like slugs and the rolie polies are just in the wrong place at the wrong time. I keep a spray bottle of the rose and flower insect spray handy (I think it's by Bayer) and just spray down a plant when I see it being munched on. It works for a few weeks, but if you just keep an eye out for munching, then spray it, the plant is usually fine after that. Good luck! |
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