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Regen Ag General Discussion
DD Drill and SLUGS
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<blockquote data-quote="Humble Village Farmer" data-source="post: 7892611" data-attributes="member: 142541"><p>It depends if there's anything to eat the slugs.</p><p></p><p>When we first started, we had disastrous slug damage. Of course rape and wheat were grown with neonicotinoids then. I remember looking at some ww dd into rape volunteers and each rape leaf had 5 to 10 slugs on. That was 9 years ago and we lost some of that crop.</p><p></p><p>Same field this year, also wheat DD into a clovery mix intended as a green mulch. I knew there were loads of slugs in the clover so pre slugged it with 2kg per ha of sluxx. </p><p></p><p>Thought I would see how bad it was a week or so after drilling I popped down there expecting to find the worst, but all I could find was loads of centipedes (plus the odd slug of course). </p><p></p><p>Hoping against hope I looked up "what do centipedes eat" and the answer came back - slugs and slug eggs.</p><p></p><p>It's had no pellets since and the wheat is green - quite an achievement for me.</p><p></p><p>So in conclusion, I think we have been killing all our slugivores with insecticide. If you trained the slugs to eat a bit of Redigo deter first, they would then poison your beetles or in my case, centipedes.</p><p></p><p>Obviously I wouldn't like to guarantee this will happen every time but it's quite encouraging.</p><p></p><p>On balance, I reckon we still have more slugs than our cultivating neighbours but more earthworms too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Humble Village Farmer, post: 7892611, member: 142541"] It depends if there's anything to eat the slugs. When we first started, we had disastrous slug damage. Of course rape and wheat were grown with neonicotinoids then. I remember looking at some ww dd into rape volunteers and each rape leaf had 5 to 10 slugs on. That was 9 years ago and we lost some of that crop. Same field this year, also wheat DD into a clovery mix intended as a green mulch. I knew there were loads of slugs in the clover so pre slugged it with 2kg per ha of sluxx. Thought I would see how bad it was a week or so after drilling I popped down there expecting to find the worst, but all I could find was loads of centipedes (plus the odd slug of course). Hoping against hope I looked up "what do centipedes eat" and the answer came back - slugs and slug eggs. It's had no pellets since and the wheat is green - quite an achievement for me. So in conclusion, I think we have been killing all our slugivores with insecticide. If you trained the slugs to eat a bit of Redigo deter first, they would then poison your beetles or in my case, centipedes. Obviously I wouldn't like to guarantee this will happen every time but it's quite encouraging. On balance, I reckon we still have more slugs than our cultivating neighbours but more earthworms too. [/QUOTE]
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