how can we eliminate them quickly? they’re eating the strawberries before we can pick them
by scroville00
how can we eliminate them quickly? they’re eating the strawberries before we can pick them
by scroville00
33 Comments
Put something to elevate your strawberries off the ground or they will be eating really well.
If you want organic use sluggo max, if you want the best control use something like Sevin
I noticed they will eat root veggies if the soil is dry. Try tying up the berries off the ground and water the ground. Add some dry leaves if you have them around to help keep more moisture around so they will eat the wood chips.
I hope you can manage that! Just the other day I got downvoted a lot for asking if rolly pollies could be harmful.
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Birds probably. Are they netted?
Quickly? You’ll have to use a pesticide. Organic? Use diatomaceous earth (has to stay dry to work) and cut citrus fruits in half face down and manually remove the bugs in the morning. They have decimated my garden and I’ve been doing this daily for a month. Apparently they LOVE raised beds and will over populate which causes them to eat living things. I’ve officially declared war on them in my garden beds since I’ve lost 1/3 of my garden to them
Plant some flower companions for them, I planted marigolds close by and most of my insect issue has disappeared
I heard that they only eat decaying stuff. If I was a rollie pollie I’d totally eat strawberries. 😂
This is why straw is super helpful to strawberries. Just add fresh straw each spring ans then they are up off the ground where its dry and airy away from bugs.
i have had the BIGGEST problem with them this year and i agree with the others it’s WILD how many people insist they only eat dead matter. tell that to my eggplant stems and calendula leaves with chew marks. i have a pillbug infestation in one of my raised beds. what worked for me was one of the granulated slug products with spinosad. i chose the granules because they will last through rain. i also don’t have to worry about accidentally hurting bees or other beneficials like i would with spray or dust.
Product called Sluggo will address this issue as well. Safe for pets and people. Even safe for chickens.
My turtle would go bananas for those!
Put several small cups or bowls filled with beer at ground level, dug into the soil, where the bugs are. They will die happy as they drown themselves in the beer. You’ll pull out dozens after just one night.
This video was like a fever dream. Everything moving all at once 😵💫
Может стоит потравить вредителей чем ни будь из группы биологических веществ от вредителей (не химических), вряд ли они не поползут по стеблям за ягодой.
We had this exact problem last year. Drown them in beer. I dug a small hole, put a small plastic container in it and filled it with cheap beer. They are attracted to the sweet smell and they drown. They can climb, so just lifting the berries off the ground doesn’t do much. Diatomaceous earth also helped keep them off the plant, the beer solved the problem. We had hundreds and they ate EVERYTHING.
Last year they swarmed my onions and young plants. Sluggo Plus solved it.
Sluggo plus also works if you want to go that route
I last grew strawberries in a gutter. Cap the ends, drill some drainage holes, hang and enjoy 🍓
Sluggo+ is the best solution.
If you stop mulching with wood, that should probably solve it. Rolly pollies / wood lice, they really like wood. They love to live under it and emerge to devour whatever is around. If you take away their habitat, problem solved.
If it were me, in the short run, I would just scoop up all the wood chips, and put down one, 1 ft by 1 ft board. In 2 nights, 80% of those little guys are gonna be under there. Then come back and scoop em all all into a bucket and throw them in your compost or whereever. No poison needed.
Sprinkle some diatomaceous earth around the plants. It’s completely safe and very effective at stopping pillbugs.
Rolly pollies only attack plant matter that are already decaying/dead. My guess is that some other animal got to the the ripe fruit first like slugs/snails or birds. Spreading straw might mitigate the problem.
Isopods are part of the soil crew, they break down decomposing organic matter. They can get overly ambitious, but I wouldn’t blame the isopods and I certainly wouldn’t be stupid enough to poison my soil. Why does no one seem to understand basic microbiology?
STRAWerries not dirtberries
I put my strawberries in those litter draw string bags as soon as I notice they have been pollinated.
Bury a short jar up to the rim in the soil among the strawberry plants, the roly-polys will fall in
I just flip the berries up over some strawberry leaves and off the ground and then they’re good.
The Rollie pollies did not kill the strawberry. Something else did or there was some other reason. They are just cleaning up. Don’t kill them. Probably was either fungus or a slug
This happened to me this year! I had to get diatomaceous earth and that helped a ton
Lots of rain out of nowhere may have driven them to the surface for a while. They usually prefer rotting roots and leaf litter.
Another possibility, the ground is overwatered one way or another, and roots are rotting so population explodes.
Third possibility, the ground is overfertilized, which can bring these giys and earwigs and more.
Hope this helps
Roly-polies are just the little sanitation crew for Mother Nature. They don’t do the damage, they clean up the mess left behind after the damage has already been done. Somebody else is your actual culprit.