Hello!
My wife and I just put in a ton of hardwork getting our gardens renewed, only to find something has immediately started to eat the seedlings we planted.
Can anyone help us identify this plant eater? Looks like a tiny isopod/pillbug to me.
We live in southern Ontario, Canada.
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Here’s a close up ( if there’s a better community to ask, please let me know!)
Isopods are many species of crustacean. The terrestrial species are often called rolley pollies or potato bugs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlouse
aka, you’ve got crabs
I dig holes around my plants and sink plastic cups into the holes, leaving the rims at ground level. Woodlice fall into the cups, and then I can give them to my chickens. It doesn’t catch them all, but it seems to give my plants a fighting chance.
My chickens won’t touch them , but will greedily eat all other garden dwellers, caterpillars, grubs, etc. 1/10, defective hens, should I turn them into tendies?
And I’ve got a new word
roll up into a roughly spherical shape (conglobate)
Today I learned! Cool! Use it in a sentence this week.
Throw some diatomaceous earth on your plants and it’ll kill the roly polys on your plants.
That’s a Rollie Pollie Ollie! Dunno what anyone else calls it though. My mom used to put Diatomaceous Power at the base of the plant to keep them safe from these guys, squash bugs, and other hungry little pests
