:( Maybe a caterpillar? If you have sevin it would probably be a good idea to dust.
Shawn

I had all of my plants on a back porch, with plastic going all the way around to keep it from freezimg for the last few weeks. I finally got the greenhouse done and moved everything into it. Almost everything had chewed holes in it and most of my succulents were gone down to the roots! Rat poo everywhere! Hopefully, you just have a stray hungry snail!

The holes on my brugs comes from these little yellow flying bugs that look like ladybugs. I find them inside the blossomes and buds all the time. They became a (no if I only knew how to spell that nuiasance? word lol) SEE WHAT I HAVE TO PUT UP WITH MY SPELLING ALL!!! THE TIME ...heck those little pests at least die at one time or another. Oh wait...so will I roflmao

Lucy

I still have slugs in the greenhouses and a few caterpillars that made it inside with the plants. I pretty much gave up on the slugs. I spread out some diatomaceous earth and hope for the best. If it's caterpillars you'll find piles of frass. I try hand picking them off. If all else fails I start stripping foliage. Right now I'm fighting an aphid infestation. They took hold while I was in the hospital because of dry conditions. Keeping the humidity up is one of the best ways of keeping sucking insects under control.

Hi karyn
Put a few shallow pans of beer around that should attract the slugs and they will drown in the beer or use used coffee grounds and they will not craw over them snails and slugs don´t like caffein

Kenny

WELCOME Kenny. I just have to say Hi after I saw that you are in Berlin lol ..That is what my mom used to do also. Unfortunately my DH does not share his beer with the snails. So I have to resort in throwing leaves on the ground. They eat on THOSE first. I mean who wants to climb a mountain if they can get the same in the valley? lol

Lucy

I just can't stand the bowls full of dead bloated slugs floating in beer. lol The coffee grounds sound doable though. I might try that. Thanks.

About 2 weeks after I brought some of the Brugs in I found several little green cats that had hitched a ride..smooshed those and I havn't found any more..LOL
Welcome Kenny!!!
Kylie

Dorothy I am sorry something is snacking on your plants. The bud looks like it was from a bug to me..that looks like the damage I had on mine from cucumber beetles.
I can't believe how the iochroma is cut right off like that! That def looks like the work of something bigger than a bug.
Has anything been knocked over? I would check for little holes dug around the base of the GH..maybe a chipmunk or squirrel? Or maybe even like patecake said, a rat?

I had 2 slugs inside so far. First one was with some brugs in my bedroom bathtub, found him pretty quick..but the second one was hiding in one of the Majesty Palm pots. My 4 yr old's stuffed animal fell onto the pot. When DH picked it up the next day it had a slug on it's head, lol. I just thought it was so funny..but I was the only one. I fed it to the Koi.

I had tried the coffee grounds..slugs here couldn't have cared less about walking over it, or sand, or copper, or anything else..nothing I tried worked until I started using poison pellets.

Lucy, that sounds like cucumber beetles.

Thanks you all for the welcome :-)

LOL Lucy I don´t use the good beer for the slugs either, I buy the cheap stuff for the slugs and snails, and do a little dance in the mornings when I have a bowl full of slugs , My favorite is the salt shaker. There I play the wizard of Oz. I can just hear them screaming I am melting , but when I see what they do to my plants I have no problem with that .
I also use epson salt just sprinkle it around then I figure I have also a fertlizer.

Karyn if it gets bad enough you won´t think twice about the dead slugs in a bowl LOL you too will be doing a dance and singing na nanana I got you :-)

Kenny

I'm sorry Kenny, I forgot to say hi and welcome!
lol, I did the same thing with the epsom salt. My kids think I am so mean, hehehe!! I even tried it on some leeches from in the ponds, it's even more fun to do to them..their skin actually starts to rip away, or like, deteriorate right in front of your eyes. I make little high pitched screaming noises for them, lol.
hmmm..ok, now that I look at that typed out..maybe I am sick in the head...maybe...

Hello daniella
LOL I make the screaming noise too LOL , No you are not sick in the head . when I see what they do to my plants over night I give them a litte extra salt . and the copper didn´t work either that just busted my bubble I was planning to do raised beds trimmed in copper, but if that does not work I don´t need spend the money copper.

kenny

Thanks everybody for your input. I don't think in slugs. The iochroma was on a shelf 5 ft off the the ground and done of the leaves were eaten just cut.
Anyway I had to go and buy sevin dust today help that helps.
Thanks again,
Dorothy

Well I do not thinks its a bug! or a Cut warm!!!
Look at what I Found this morning!!! My datura!I wanted to cry!!!
What ever it was also eat the seed pods right off the plant and The ones drying on the table!!!
I have dusted everything in the GH and put out RAT poisin.
My DH fixed a better door for me today.
So Sad,
Dorothy
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Flower and buds by the door like something was trying to drug it out.

Oh Dorothy, I am so sorry that some varmint got to your beautiful plants. Hopefully whatever it ingested, will put it to sleep.

O no!!! that looks just like what the darn squirrels here did to mine! lil rat b@$t@rd$. I'm sorry Dorothy :(

Just went out to the GH. All is well this morning. The poisin wasn't touched. But the plants looked ok so what ever was getting in maybe we stopped it. I sure hope so anyway.
Dorothy

OH NO!!! Was it my Cows..lmao....They'll eat anything...Probably not ..there is some left and they always leave a little prezzie behind.. ;O)

Hey was going to email you...I can not fine one seed left NOT ONE... :( I need to move the table and look under it...Maybe I will fine a couple.
I hope what ever did it gets a belly ache!!!
I gave Susan a seed pod a while back. Going to see if I can get a few back from her. If so I will still share.
I'm so sorry.
Dorothy

Don't worry about it.. No Big Deal!!! SWEAR!!
Kylie