Kathleen...Hi!! YUP Love Ariolimax!!! Like I said previously...I grow a lot of rare wild plants and our sweet banana Slugs NEVER...well almost never...do any damage...My largest which travels through our acre sized rock garden, visits..often...and he/she (hermaphrodite) munches on Campanula occasionally, so I move her/him to another location...with Sloggo yelling "Oh, no!! Not again!!" Eight inches long stretched out...beautifully spotted...and sticky as heck when picked up...Save all native species please...they live here...we are visitors.. Thank you On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 7:50 AM Shmuel Silinsky via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Kathleen, isn't the salt a horrible poison for plants and soil? Maybe you > live in a high rainfall area. In my Mediterranean climate I see salt as an > enemy, unless you have some other info for me. > I am even hesitant to use salt to kill invasive trees like Ailanthus by > pouring it into a hole drilled in the tree. (Though I find Miracle Gro > works well for that and I figure some nutrients get into the soil that > way.) > Shmuel > Jerusalem Israel > Zone 9a > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2023, 5:37 PM Kathleen Sayce via pbs < > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > > Our large native slug, the banana slug, is generally not a problem in > > local gardens, not being a generalist feeder on seeds, seedlings and > > flowers of nonnative species. > > > > I have seen them eating garden plants, true, but only the diseased or > > dying plants, never bulbs, or other desired garden plants. This species > is > > the main reason I do not use widespread slug baits in my garden, only > > around plants I want to protect, while I am rethinking how seriously I > want > > to grow them. : ) Chocolate slugs are another story, haven’t found > anything > > they will not eat, including flowers of Kniphofia. One damp summer > morning > > a few years ago I found more than 10 of them dining on the fresh flowers > at > > the tops of the stalks. I went for table salt immediately. > > > > Would like to know the dissertation on Ariolimax columbianus (author, > > university, title of dissertation) so others can look at how to access > it. > > > > Thanks, > > Kathleen > > PNW coast, under very smoky skies > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > > PBS Forum latest: > > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > PBS Forum latest: > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…