I tried the aluminium flywire trick to stop snails getting up my pawpaw trees and chewing the pawpaws. To prevent snails and slugs from establishing on your meyer lemon tree remove any surrounding hiding places for the pests including mulch and leaf debris.
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Its been in place for about 2 months now and i would say it looks like it has resulted in less snails getting up the trees.
Snails on fruit trees. Or on young shoots of newly planted trees. If these are young fruit trees and not yet well established you are well advised to continue picking the snails off. Snail and slug damage can be confused with feeding by other pests such as earwigs caterpillars or other chewing insects.
This will reduce egg numbers and the snail population the following spring. Research shows that slugs and snails cannot tolerate crawling on copper surfaces which gives them a mild electrical shock when they touch it. When present in very high numbers snails can feed on fruit especially the calyx of apples.
Slugs are not true insects but rather members of the mollusk phylum. Citrus are especially susceptible to damage. But there are still the occasional snail that crosses this barrier.
Both garden pests rely on their. Snail management is a multi step process that involves both cultural and chemical control including. Pruning tree skirts to make it more difficult for snails to attack low hanging fruit baiting to reduce their numbers and to protect fruit banding tree trunks with copper foil or a copper sulphate.
If the tree is older and larger its not as big an issue. Snails can cause severe problems in citrus orchards. Of course it could be that.
Control a key time to control snails by baiting is during the autumn rains see table 1 for bait products. You can put copper bands around your flower pots fruit tree trunks etc to deter them from crawling up and onto the foliage of your plants. Damaged leaves have large chewed areas along the margins.
Almost all garden vegetables ornamental flowers and some fruit trees especially citrus are subject to attack. Snails and slugs will also feed on the young plant bark and foliage and fruit of some trees. We currently have a very mature large apple tree which often has slugs and snails on the lower trunk but these do not seem to cause a problem to the tree.
The brown garden snail can cause extensive damage in orchards by feeding on ripe and ripening fruit leaves of young trees and in nurseries by feeding on young tree bark. Fruit damage appears as circular chewed areas in the rind. As a result they are closely related to snails in structure and biology except the snail has a shell and the slug does not.
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