Every year after blooming I cut off the stems and the foliage looks great for about three weeks, at which time leaves start dying by the droves. In one month nearly all the leaves are dead and all that's left is a stump still growing, and sprouting new leaves. I have found at the end of the stalks where it is curled and attaches to the rooting plant, a mass of earwigs surrounding a single slug on the inside of the curled leaf bottom. A little ways ahead of that toward the middle of the leaf, is a very large leopard slug, which I understand is a predator and doesn't do much damage except to eat old organic stuff. I clear out all of the dead and dying leaves from the plants, clean the ground around the plants and it looks bare, but it's taken care of organically with no pesticides or other poisons. I've noticed too that the following spring the daylily sprout heavily and fill out the space is if nothing ever happened, but it does appear to limit their ability to take over every other plant's space, so perhaps this is nature's way of containing the daylily and it's propensity for taking over everything. I still have to dig up an occasional new sprout but they are few and far between. I don't know what to do as these insects are deep down inside the curled up leaves as they sprout from the ground and since I have an organic garden I'm unwilling to use anything including beer which my neighbors cat drank one night and got deathly ill from. So, any suggestions and has anyone else noticed this?

Earwigs seem to be a way of life with daylilies, in my garden at least! I have sometimes zapped them with insecticidal soap but it makes me feel better more than it diminishes the earwigs. Since this is the Plant ID forum and you're not looking for a plant ID maybe you could post this in the daylily forum here where you may get more answers:

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It sounds like you may be talking about this kind of daylily?
Daylily (Hemerocallis fulva)

Once they are finished for the season and the foliage is finished, it's perfectly normal that detrivores would get involved.

If your garden has no mulch and spent leaves and blooms are so fastidiously removed, detrivores are left with nothing else but to start munching on the "good" plants as they are fading for the season. Without a good layer of organic matter on the soil surface, soil improvement can not be as robust, and can only happen much more slowly if at all, and the microbiological processes severely hindered.

When I find a slug, I toss it into the grass.

The problem with earwigs here is more that they damage the daylily flowers, they eat off the petal surface and poop all over the blooms. I don't think they damage the leaves at the base other than create a mess. In fact they may be somewhat predacious on pests.

If I found enough of any bug to cause floral dismay, I would try to attract whatever garden-positive critters that are likely to eat them. For earwigs, a birdbath, a few loose piles of bigger rocks for toads, plenty of nectar plants for wasps. ...maybe have less hateful thoughts about yellow jackets. Maybe. The are on the list of those who break the "I'll leave you alone and you leave me alone" gardening agreement. One of the few reasons I'm aware that I can run.

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