Eaten Daylily

Cliecost

Hi,

I have recently planted a Hemerocallis (Big happy time, Daylily)
in my garden.

The problem I have with it is that it looks like some thing has began eating it!

Can anyone please tell me what the likely suspect is and how to deal with it?

Thanks in advance for any help.

amcluesent

Slugs

Cliecost

amcluesent wrote: »

Slugs

Really? But it's not an edible plant.

I thought slugs only go for edible plants and also wouldn't they leave a slimy trail?

This looks like something else I've never seen before plus I've never dealt with lilys.

meg72

Edible for who, you might not want to eat them but slugs do. They particularly like Lillys, lupins, dalias and a few more that I will think of later.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Day lilies are edible for humans, btw. The flowers, apparently.

I don't think slugs really care what we think, they just eat everything. Except weeds. They never seem to like them that much.

cootambear

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Day lilies are edible for humans, btw. The flowers, apparently.

I don't think slugs really care what we think, they just eat everything. Except weeds. They never seem to like them that much.

b@stards

I think they take the p1ss deliberately

dogstarheaven

lily beetle would be the culprit. i've not had any of mine eaten but am always vigilant. as i'm organic, i will destroy this red blighter when i find one tho'!

ps. just found out that you're talking about daylilies whereas i thought it was about normal lilies. soz

demystified

lily beetles don't attack day lillies to my knowledge, just the regular kind and they leave neat holes, apart from their grubs eating everything in sight and you can't miss those as they eat en masse. This is classic slug damage and with all the wet weather they're everywhere

Cliecost

I bloody hate slugs!!!!

I looked online and and some places suggest Spring sickness, but that involves loads of, frost-thaw-frost-thaw cycles, which hasn't happened here.

Mado

cootambear wrote: »

b@stards

I think they take the p1ss deliberately

Can I add mice and rabbits to the list of mortal ennemies?

This year, mice have gone in the covered raised bed next to the house and eaten broadbeans that had already germinated (found the 5 cm stem), courgette seeds, peas and runner beans. That's the first yaer they've been in there.

My other peas have been snipped within days of being planted out. In previous years, they never came that near the house.

And my brand new clematis has been destroyed.

I am very cross..:mad:

Miss_Havisham

slugs and snails looooooooooooooooooooooove hostas ! I've had one eaten down to the "ribs" of the leaves overnight. Tried the copperstrips, egg shells, grit etc but the little blighters still get through (survival instinct grrr).