Dont see whats eating my basil?

Sep 15, 2005 4 Replies

Will someone please help? Something is eating my basil! I cant see wha



it is. I found no eggs or nest of any sort, i have put eggshells and also have gravel. So its nt slugs or beetles. I also used an insec killing spray but nothing works. I hear crikets so I assume they ar next in line. What can i use against them? Unless someone knows what it is


-- edith


What makes you think it isn't slugs?

Maybe its more about someone making pesto than a pest?

Hi- I dont see the slugs anymore but when I saw them and rarely, it wa just one. I put out gravel too and no site of them lately. I even g out and spy on the bugs at night hahaha What i do see are spiders and daddy longlegs and crickets Honestly I a perplexed..

-- edith

Check for earwigs, if they exist in your area. In No. California they are voracious eaters of basil.

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