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Dr. uarewotueat
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Re: Son Of a Bitch! [Re: waixingren]
#9024596 - 10/03/08 04:43 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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crows live a bloody long time, 30+ years i believe... plenty of time to get smart 
if i had bird trouble i'd be out picking them off with my air rifle, they soon learn as scruffy said... the pigeons don't come around this part of the village anymore
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sturmer88
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Re: Son Of a Bitch! [Re: kadakuda]
#9026966 - 10/04/08 01:59 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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kadakuda said: most things are salvageable! just let it dry up and keep away from them. pics would be best.
are you sure they were cats? rodents often eat various cacti, including lophophora.
I've had the same problems. The same gashes that are in your pics but i don't think it's rodent. I have alot of fruit that fall of the trees and attract little fruit fly's and such. It was whenever i left the Lophs where allot of bugs were i would notice gashes on the sides of the lophs the next day. I'd move it back to a bug free area and they would be fine. When I left loph seedlings out. Some type of bigs would carry the entire seedlings away. It would sure piss me off.
I recently lost a bunch of Loph ans Trico seedlings. They are about 7-8 months old and they were ripped out of the trays and torn apart. It drives me crazy. I've moved my remaining tricho seedlings inside at a windowsill. They seem to like it there.
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dobermann
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Re: Son Of a Bitch! [Re: waixingren]
#9027302 - 10/04/08 05:15 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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That sounds like a birds as well, not insects. Birds love pulling out seedlings, I had a bird wreck havoc on my seedlings, and take pecks out of mature plants. Now all my valuable plants, and seedlings are in different types of cages. Hamster cages are great.
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kadakuda
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Re: Son Of a Bitch! [Re: dobermann]
#9028666 - 10/04/08 01:46 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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rodents are attracted to the same things insects are. flies are suckers, they cant take gashes out of anything except table slime "bugs" that i see as problems around here are snails/slugs (i have found they don't always leave a trail, and they eat new grow/soft growth and seedlings), ants (attracted by fruits), true bugs (sucking bugs), fly *larvae* in the roots, caterpillars (these fuckers piss me off to no end!!!!).
the 2 bugs i see that actually EAT cactus are snails and caterpillars...these fuckers eat holes/chunks etc OUT of cacti, Lophophora included.
grasshoppers may also have a nibble, but i find crickets to be worse...especially succulents (they like my agaves)
birds also take out cacti, but often leave a messy situation.
rodents eat them as well, but you can often see little rough areas where their little teeth were eating them. if you have falling fruit around, you got rodents....whether you see them or not...they are there.
either way, a bug/animal bite is usually -ok-. the cactus scars and grows on. the BIG problem with most things is their shit. they eat a chunk out and shit in/by the bite area....this is dirty and leads to rot. especially if its humid/raining. some pics of my poor plants that got the poop knocked out of them.
i cant find any pics, but i also had a very nice a. asterias hanazono crest that was eaten by fly larvae...larvae can eat cacti too, usually they affect the roots....but this time they decided to eat the most expensive cactus i owned lol.... luckily i had 2
caterpillar attacks caught in the act, ate a nice loph graft...all of it. it is now a green spot on my wall.

   
  
snail attacks
  
 
rat attack -guess it wasn't TOO tasty.

rot from bug shit (healed)...if you see it clean it off....i actually wash them off at night if i see it, with clean water....then put some powder on after to keep it from rotting....something i wish i knew a long time ago!
this was a snail attack, which started to rot. a 7cm decipiens had 8 ribs and was saved at 3 ribs. civil war surgery. when rot happens, dont be too conservative....cut out more than you need...or it keeps spreading and you end up with this....
  
this was a 13 cm L. diffusa...now its maybe 4-5cm... again infected bite, this was from caterpillars.
 
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KBG1977
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Re: Son Of a Bitch! [Re: kadakuda]
#9029215 - 10/04/08 04:01 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Damn son,those last pics are awful,those have got to be the worst yet.I wonder if any body can top that,hehe?Mine look like gold compared to those.I can't believe Cacti can take that much damage,and still live!
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Dr. uarewotueat
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Re: Son Of a Bitch! [Re: KBG1977]
#9029507 - 10/04/08 05:33 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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those last pics are pretty brutal 
that kind of puts your little nibbles into perspective huh KBG?
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Brainiac
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Hang some old cds around it.Thay don't like the light coming off it..
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Dr. uarewotueat
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Re: Son Of a Bitch! [Re: Brainiac]
#9029566 - 10/04/08 06:00 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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what?
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satyr
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The cd thing works for birds, but i dont know about insects. DE is where its at, Ive even started bathing my dogs with the stuff for fleas
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Re: Son Of a Bitch! [Re: KBG1977]
#9029652 - 10/04/08 06:42 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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The enemy of my enemy is my friend..
Try to find something that eats the bad bugs...
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satyr
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Re: Son Of a Bitch! [Re: Brainiac]
#9029672 - 10/04/08 06:50 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Its strange how active cacti have far less defenses than normal cacti. I find insects impaled on my cereuses and corynes all of the time. Its awesome!
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kadakuda
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Re: Son Of a Bitch! [Re: satyr]
#9031155 - 10/05/08 03:39 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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have you seen some trichs spines?
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I wonder if any body can top that,hehe?
i have had worse, these are the ones that lived though....i tend not to take too many photos of my dieing plants, so the worst ones are almost forgotten...until this thread came around lol.
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