Hello,

here in Germany in some areas we have thousands of Spanish slugs in the gardens. It't terrible. They eat nearly all. I saw these slugs eating young plants of Metasequoia,Taxodium,Taiwania,Cryptomeria till the height of 2 m. If they eat the pickly needles of Taiwania, I think , you will find them also on Pines. They prefer Hostas and others and eat the poison- leafs of potatos.
But slug pellets work good.

Wolfgang

Hi Wolfgang,

I am glad I am not the only one thinking slugs will eat anything. We had a really wet spring and summer this year here in Minnesota, and I have been using sluggo and bug gett-a pellets under my other plants, but when I go out at night with my ammonium spray I still find dozens of slugs, even in areas treated with pellets. They have not touched any of my chamaecyparis or tsujas (yet). But the young pines look like they are really struggling - I will try to put some pellets underneath and maybe try to put a copper ring around the trunk.

I live in the land of slugs and have never seen a slug eating a Pine tree.
What size are they? What color?
Where do you live, parliz?
Are you guys talking worms.....or slug-like worms?
Perhaps a Saw fly larvae?
Mike

Get a foil pie pan and fill it with beer and bury it flush with the ground.

They love it and will drown. I don't have a problem with my conifers but the hostas...they eat. It works for me.

Read the link.

Dave

Here is a link that might be useful: Snail and slug beer trap.

Mike,

here we have many different slugs and snails. But the only pest is ( in German ) " Spanische Nacktschnecke: Arion vulgaris".you can find pics in the internet. I don't no the name in English. This slug has no enemy. No wild animal eats this slug, they tast bitter. In gardens you find Chinese ducks. These are the only enemies. They eat these slugs the whole day.

They came from Spain 40/50 years ago.But it needed time to become a population of many millions. Some slugs, which live here since a long time are now very rare, because these Spanish slugs eat the eggs from all others.
In some years the farmers here bring with the seed slug pellets in the earth. It's very expensive, but without no chance for young plants.
In some years we have so much, that you have a slimy line on both sides of the roads. The cars kill some slugs. The next slugs want to eat the dead ones and the next cars kill them and so on.So you have this slimy line. It's not easy to ride a bike.
But it's not in all parts of Germany. I know this from the North near the border to Denmark.

I forgot, they eat also Wollemia nobilis, this wonderful ancient plant.

Wolfgang

Wow. Well, again if it means anything, I live in a land full of slugs like Mike and have lots of pines of all kinds and have never seen slugs on them or ANY sign of slug damage. They love my perennials though, particularly hosta, coneflowers and dahlias.

-WIll

Well now that I know who 's been killing my pine I am on top of it. I will take a picture of the damage and post tomorrow. The kind that eats it is the same plain type ( half inch gray garden slug) that is munching on anything I forget to reapply Sluggo around. Tried beer, too, but find it too messy and non-effective - too much to cover, frequent rains diluting the beer, etc. ). My hostas are under control due to my undying vigilance but most of my clematis which I collect and which is blooming right now, has damaged flowers ( the darn things skip the leaves and go straight for the
blossoms) even after slug go applications and nightly shifts with the ammonia spray. Agrrrrrr....

Well now that I know who 's been killing my pine I am on top of it. I will take a picture of the damage and post tomorrow. The kind that eats it is the same plain type ( half inch gray garden slug) that is munching on anything I forget to reapply Sluggo around. Tried beer, too, but find it too messy and non-effective - too much to cover, frequent rains diluting the beer, etc. ). My hostas are under control due to my undying vigilance but most of my clematis which I collect and which is blooming right now, has damaged flowers ( the darn things skip the leaves and go straight for the
blossoms) even after slug go applications and nightly shifts with the ammonia spray. Agrrrrrr....

This is what I use for slugs works 100%

I have a Chief Joseph pine that looked like it might have been sunburned or frost bitten from last year. Planted it in a pot and new growth came and then started to look bad. This morning, I noticed approx 15 small brown slugs on the branches. That doesn't sound like a lot but the tree is only 3 feet tall. Knocked them off and put bait at the base. We will see. Also haveanother pine that looks very similar so baited that one too.

Last summer slugs ate one of my smaller Sequoiadendron gigantum.

My slugs seem to love Hams beer (it is the beer refreshing, after all). I put tuna cans filled near the top with it in several places around the garden and every morning I have tins full of slugs - fewer every morning.

A friend told me just today that the largest of the slugs in his garden enjoyed the beer and the next morning were seen staggering home to displeased wives.

A few years ago, as I was on my way to the mailbox at the end of the driveway, I stopped to pick up a large slug that was munching on marigold. Across the road was a large field, so I heaved the slug as far as I could into the field.

A year later, as I was sitting at the computer, the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and there was the slug yelling, "What was THAT about!"