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Found these guys going to town on a few leafs on my Columnar Aspens (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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These gonna destroy my trees if I don’t deal with them?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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.