@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 months agoFound these guys going to town on a few leafs on my Columnar Aspenslemmy.worldimagemessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up157arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up156arrow-down1imageFound these guys going to town on a few leafs on my Columnar Aspenslemmy.world@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 months agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareHello_therelinkfedilink5•2 months agoIf they’re invasive yeah nuke em. Otherwise you’re good.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-22 months agoSomething doesn’t have to be invasive to be detrimental to your plants or yard. Slugs are awesome, but if they get at my garden, yeah I’m gonna do something to deal with them, that’s reality.
minus-squareHello_therelinkfedilink0•2 months agoIts about degrees, right? If you see 1 leaf with 1 slug are you going to bust out the poison? Prob not. That’s different from seeing a plant overrun. If those cateepillars aren’t mobbing on your tree en masse it’s prob OK to leave em alone.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoI’ll bust out the copper tape, because if you have one, you have more, and it’s easier to deal with an infestation before you have it. Hence my post and asking, but to claim only invasive bugs are bad is pretty wild growmie.
Not all bugs are beneficial though.
If they’re invasive yeah nuke em. Otherwise you’re good.
Something doesn’t have to be invasive to be detrimental to your plants or yard.
Slugs are awesome, but if they get at my garden, yeah I’m gonna do something to deal with them, that’s reality.
Its about degrees, right? If you see 1 leaf with 1 slug are you going to bust out the poison? Prob not. That’s different from seeing a plant overrun. If those cateepillars aren’t mobbing on your tree en masse it’s prob OK to leave em alone.
I’ll bust out the copper tape, because if you have one, you have more, and it’s easier to deal with an infestation before you have it.
Hence my post and asking, but to claim only invasive bugs are bad is pretty wild growmie.