RE: The Sunflower Mystery Continues
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Being in a hot country, most of our plant nibblers come out at night. So I usually go out after dark with a torch to see what's eating them. Our main culprits are weavils and European earwigs, which I collect and feed to the chickens in the morning. Sometimes I'll put a plastic collar around the seedlings (cut from an old milk bottle) until they get a bit bigger and can cope with more nibbling. It's not a complete deterrent, but it does seem to discourage a certain amount of smaller creatures from decimating seedlings early on. Even the birds seem a bit put off by them.
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The weather is usually hot only in July and August where I live, but this year it was warmer than usual in late May and early June. Perhaps some pest was there earlier than usual because of that, and is enjoying the smaller seedlings. We are now getting the cooler weather that should have been here in early June. Better late than never!