[Arid_gardener] RE: Strawberry Pests

[Carolyn Hills]

Hi Holly -- 

I'm not sure what pest is eating the leaves of your strawberry plants, but
the one most likely drilling holes in your berries is the pill bug (or sow
bug). Check out http://insected.arizona.edu/isoinfo.htm for more information
on this common garden pest. 

In my garden, any strawberry that touches the ground seems to get invaded by
pill bugs. 

Once it cools down in fall, I plan to transplant all of my strawberries to
my raised beds and use weed cloth to block the pill bugs. For an excellent
description of how to plant strawberries in a home garden, check out this
Santa Clara County Master Gardener website:
http://www.mastergardeners.org/picks/growingStrawberries.html

Hope this helps!

Carolyn Hills
Maricopa County Master Gardener Volunteer

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Holly Dunn
85295
ryrygoose at yahoo.com

I have some strawberry plants that are about 2 years old.  They produce well
Feb-May but I do have trouble with a pest eating round holes into the
berries.  Right now I have something eating the leaves of my plants.  Do you
have any suggestions of what they might be or how to stop them?  Thank you
for your help.  Holly


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