glallotments wrote:Eggs could have been present in the pot already.

Yes, of course, you are right. I guess the moral of the story is to use slug pellets wherever planting pansies or other such vulnerable plants, although I don't really like to. Copper rings are not an option - too expensive as I have so many pots.

Yes, slugs in the beds I can understand, but can they crawl across gravel, up a wall, across the top of the wall, up the sides of a pot, and then launch themselves at the pansies, all without leaving a trail anywhere?
I suppose the answer must be "yes" .......

Alan, I don't think it can be sparrows because of the location of the plants, but I will keep an eye out. Yes, we have plenty of the little devils here in Ceredigion! Snooky, I wondered about earwigs, too. What with climate change, it could be that they are already active. I suppose I would have to ...

No matter where I plant pansies - in beds or in pots, something always chews on the flowers and ends up completely destroying the plants. I also have problems with wallflowers being chewed, and this morning I noticed lumps out of white hellebore flowers. In addition, a newly planted creeping phflox ...