Did you spray with anything?

Looks like spots left by bleach to me. Did you spray with a clorine/water mixture? Ellie

I sprayed with Malathion the day before this pic was taken but this was on here well before that. Its also the only one looking this bad.....most just have tiny white spots on them. No bleach either.
I have since cut off the foliage to see what happens now.

The leaf margins in the top pic sure do look a lot like slug damage. At least that's how my plants were looking until I started using slug bait in my beds.

Linda

Is there any kind of texture to those white spots - like
fuzzy - that might be mealy bugs. If the spots are flat,
no mealy bugs. I would agree with Ellie in that case.

Good luck on finding out what it is.

Kay

No texture, just like something eat the green off and now the leaf is see thru. I am suspecting little slugs myself. They must come out mostly at night.

ladydonna......that's what it looks like to me too...slug or snail damage. Last year I had some serious damage before I figured out what was causing it.

So this year I started very early with the slug/snail bait. It comes in the sprinkle type in a box and pellets in the box that you also sprinkle. I have all my '$' daylilies in pots and I sprinkle the slug bait around and in between the pots. I have carfully followed a 2 week schedule of using this bait since very early this year and I am happy to say that I have no snail/slug damage so far this year.

There are two types, one has ZINC as the major ingredient but I don't think it is safe around daylilies. I use the kind that has METALDEHYDE as the main ingredient. I think that kind is safe on the daylilies....but just to be safe I try not to get it on my daylilies at all.

If you are interested in using it you might want to do some research on the difference...

I also keep a bottle of WATER/AMMONIA with me when I am in the garden, I carry it around in my bucket that has all my other gardening stuff in it. Any time I see a slug/snail I give it a spray and it's by-by critter. This water/ammonia mix is safe on daylilies, I even spray it directly on the plant so that it will run down in the tender new growth and kill the little tiny newly hatched slugs/snails. I have sprayed just about every green thing in my garden and never had any damage from it. I use about a 1/4 cup ammonia to a cup of water, but I really have no set formula. It's cheap and very very effective.

Hope you don't have any more damage........

Thanks for the advice lotodig! I put out little caps of beer tonight to see if I can 'catch' any. We have tons of insecticides in our possession but i didn't see any mention of snails or slugs on the labels. I will try your method with the ammonia and see how that works. Thanks again!

ladydonna......The slug/snail bait comes labeled as just that "SLUG AND SNAIL BAIT", in a seperate labeled container...you can get it at WMart or Lowe's or most garden centers. Good luck with the control of those creatures...