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Having seen a few wire worms on the area of the plot where I was planning on putting the spuds last weekend I chopped up a few spuds, stuck them on sticks and buried them a few inches deep.
I dug up the traps yesterday I was happy to find a few wire worms... much less happy to find LOADS of, what I thought were tiny, baby, millipedes!
Being short on time and having nowhere else for the spuds to go I bit the bullet and stuck in the seed potatoes hoping the little blighters wouldn't chomp through all of them.
Having done a bit of goggling when I got home I now think they are Spotted Snake Millipedes which, it seems, is bad news for spuds and other root crops.
It seems they are more likely to eat crops during times of drought which is odd as the largest numbers of them were in the damper part of the ground.
Apart from keeping the ground well watered has anyone got any ideas if they can be got rid of at all?
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sp...w=1440&bih=783 <--- pics of spotted snake millipedes
I dug up the traps yesterday I was happy to find a few wire worms... much less happy to find LOADS of, what I thought were tiny, baby, millipedes!
Being short on time and having nowhere else for the spuds to go I bit the bullet and stuck in the seed potatoes hoping the little blighters wouldn't chomp through all of them.
Having done a bit of goggling when I got home I now think they are Spotted Snake Millipedes which, it seems, is bad news for spuds and other root crops.
It seems they are more likely to eat crops during times of drought which is odd as the largest numbers of them were in the damper part of the ground.
Apart from keeping the ground well watered has anyone got any ideas if they can be got rid of at all?
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sp...w=1440&bih=783 <--- pics of spotted snake millipedes
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