oldmarine
Married 32 years
For years my lawn has been infested with cut worms that kill the grass from the roots. For years I have used a commercial insecticide to elliminate cut worms and other destructive insects.
Since I installed my 365 gallon pond a year ago September, 2009, I have stopped using any kind of insecticide in my back yard where the pond is because I didn't want to take the chance of harming the life in my pond. The garden landscape around my pond is heavely planted with "Lrish Moss' and 'Wooly Thyme' right up to the edge of the molded edges of the pond.
After dark and before bed, the old jarhead has always performed a night patrol around the house, and stopping to check his fish pond. Over the last several weeks I have been finding small slugs about 1" to 2" long eating the Irish Moss. I pick them out by hand and make them look like slug butter with a brick. Within the last several days I have been finding anywhere from 6 to24 cut worms eating the Irish Moss each night. I have been putting them in a Mason jar of water so they can drown.
My question is, would it be safe to carefully sprinkle down insecticde by hand around my pond landscape? I'm thinking that would be a real risk and possibly poison my Shubunkins in the pond. Or, is there another way to rid my yard of cut worms?
Since I installed my 365 gallon pond a year ago September, 2009, I have stopped using any kind of insecticide in my back yard where the pond is because I didn't want to take the chance of harming the life in my pond. The garden landscape around my pond is heavely planted with "Lrish Moss' and 'Wooly Thyme' right up to the edge of the molded edges of the pond.
After dark and before bed, the old jarhead has always performed a night patrol around the house, and stopping to check his fish pond. Over the last several weeks I have been finding small slugs about 1" to 2" long eating the Irish Moss. I pick them out by hand and make them look like slug butter with a brick. Within the last several days I have been finding anywhere from 6 to24 cut worms eating the Irish Moss each night. I have been putting them in a Mason jar of water so they can drown.
My question is, would it be safe to carefully sprinkle down insecticde by hand around my pond landscape? I'm thinking that would be a real risk and possibly poison my Shubunkins in the pond. Or, is there another way to rid my yard of cut worms?