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RE: SLATERS are every where... help...

Posted 305 days ago

ok leonnie another question...what are slaters? i need a book on australian words...lol if i'm being a pest just tell me.
Sally

RE: SLATERS are every where... help...

Posted 304 days ago

Hi Sally
You know you can just web search the words chooks and slaters and such


http://www.ento.csiro.au/education/allies/iso
poda.html

kind
wishes
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leonnie

RE: SLATERS are every where... help...

Posted 304 days ago

Thanks

RE: SLATERS are every where... help...

Posted 304 days ago

They are known a Pill bugs in the States.

Squash they with your feet or hands. Also remove any environments that they like to live in, old timber, pots, roof iron etc.

Cheers Bud.
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RE: SLATERS are every where... help...

Posted 152 days ago

If you mulch very well and build up your soil with composy woodlice (slaters) will breed up into plagues and then they're behaviour seems to change. They appear to work co-operatively and I swear they dig up bean seedlings and carry them away to eat them at leisure. They ring bark seedling fruit trees too, I know what you're going through.

What you have to do is hold off on soil building and mulch. Dig in what there is. Lay out planks of wood were they'll hole up during the day and then go around with a portable vacuum cleaner or dustpan and brush and put them in a bucket of warm soapy water.

They're a bugger innit :-)
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RE: SLATERS are every where... help...

Posted 145 days ago

Ha! I thought the slaters in my garden were turning nasty!!
We're told to mulch well and gardens look good with rocks and timber, now it seems the only real cure would be to have a bare yard!!!
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RE: SLATERS are every where... help...

Posted 145 days ago

i have read that a bait you can try for slaters is one part pyrethrum to two parts flour (can be wet or dry). Put it near the woodheaps etc where they shelter during the day. It has to be in a covered container because the light will make it ineffective. I haven't tried it yet but I will soon, because we have 1000's of slaters too since I mulched everywhere.

RE: SLATERS are every where... help...

Posted 133 days ago

Hi. Hortico produce a product called Lawn Beetle and Slater Killer. It comes as granules and is recommended you put it into or under your pots where the slaters are. I haven't tried this product but have a container on hand ready just incase. Gardening can be ever so frustrating with all the different challenges,but for some reason when it is a passion we never give up. Bye, good luck.

RE: SLATERS are every where... help...

Posted 23 hr ago

When I was little we used to use boiling water, seemed to work but a bit sad to watch