Slater aka wood louse

 These came up in another post. Do they do any damage to plants? I seem to
have quite few in the mulch on my veggie patch. Should I be worried?

Liz

 

Organic matter attracts slaters, which play an important role in
breaking it down, but unfortunately they do munch on young seedlings.
Staycalm wrote:

 g'day liz,

they are there to eat the organic matter we get them but never noticed
any problems then we keep feeding our gardens organic matter on a
continuing basis.

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len & bev

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 No one read my post? Slaters, they do eat young seedlings. See ABC website.


len garden wrote:

 Jonno wrote:

Perhaps as a last resort. I'd take it to mean that you are not putting
enough organic matter, aka mulch, etc, on your garden anyway.

Both of us here have never had a problem with slatters eating seedlings
in 20+ years.


As to the ABC gardening information; largely unreliable in my books.

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