help for my plants!

Hi,

My lovely flowery plants have been attacked by leeches & they have eaten up all their leaves & plants are dying.Has anyone got any idea that how i can get rid of these leeches?

 

hi Taney what plants, guess it's outdoors..leeches ? could it be caterpillars ? They can eat a whole plant over night...but plant normally does not die , just looks bare,you need to spray them, ask in your local garden shop. Then feed them and you may get them back to flower again.
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Ladybird

 

Could they not also potentially be black slugs which i have experienced stripping plants over night! and no they did not grow back! Slug Pellets worked for me!

 

no,they are actually leeches & snails...eating strawberry plant & other flowery plants...is there any specific spray for them?

 

Leeches as far as I know are parasites that live on BLOOD :eek:

 

thank you for the thrushes since a few thrushes are around i have been finding empty snail shells all around. The trouble is the birds are eating the strawberries, I have finally given in some for me, and some for the birds.My raspberries are in abundance this year more than usual

 

Glad to hear a bit of sharing going on. After many years with never a sign of a thrush I now have them nesting in my garden - the frogs and toads deal with the slugs but leave the snails, now I got a snail eater, and my delphiniums flower - a loss of strawberries I can bear.

Even more joy, after a gap of a few years, last night at dusk two humped shapes on my lawn, revealed themselves as hedgehogs - long may they visit.

 

Not seen a hedghog in years, not a live one anyway, come to that dont see many dead ones anymore.I think they've died out round here. :(

 

along with the thrushes, I have a hedgehog got the shock of my life when I opened the back door the other night and nearly trod on the poor thing :(