Slugs and a request for your comments

Kathleen Sayce via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Sun, 20 Aug 2023 14:02:09 PDT
I found snails grazing this year on the algae mat that forms each summer on my metal bubbler fountain. They also crawl inside it during hot dry weather to stay moist. We found dozens of snails in a temporary wood pile, at the bottom in the coolest, dampest area. Slugs are on the bottom of larger pots that get regular water for late flowering bulbs. They wedge into cracks in the rock walls, and under pieces of wood, anywhere that is a little cooler and damper.

Most of the slugs I’ve seen this year are chocolate slugs, Arion rufus. 

I live along a salt marsh, and usually fling snails and slugs into the marsh, thinking that it will take them a day or two to return to the garden. 

Something at all the flowers (and I mean ALL the flowers) on my yucca plants this year. Slugs and snails are not supposed to eat these plants. I suspect snails as I’ve seen snails on yucca leaves in the past. Deer? Squirrels? Any ideas for yucca-flower-eating animals? 

Kathleen
PNW Coast, where the Air Quality Index is 68 from wildfires to the NE. Grateful it’s not 250 or higher, like much of eastern WA and BC.

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