Not really. I appreciate you don't want to kill one living thing in favor of the survival of another living thing. The unfortunate truth is that there are lots of things out there that have no moral qualms about killing and even eating the living things we care most about. Wild animals usually seeks the young, old or sick to take down and that means if we are in nature with our young kids, a predatory animal will target our kids before it will us. Seems sick and perverse, but it's the way nature works. If you want to grow a plant and something other than you wants to eat it you need to decide between your wants and the wants of the thing that wishes to eat your plant. Sure, you could use a copper strip which slugs won't cross to protect your plants, but copper is toxic to many life forms such as fungi and bacteria. Are those life forms also equal in your eyes? If so then it can't be used. If you absolutely cannot kill anything then your best bet is to plant as much as you can. Just maybe after nature's ammoral critters are done eating the fruits of your labor there will be something left for you.

Thanks for the response.....The black things are hard and cannot be squished and they are easy to just brush off the lilies....Most appear at the joint where the leaf grows out of the stem and in some places there is only one and in others, there appears to be a cluster of the little black "cannonballs"....Can anyone shed any light here??? Joyce

Sea grape (Coccoloba uvifera) is quite resistant to salt. It naturalizes in colonies along the ocean. The "what to do" is to drag out the phone book, look up arborists in the yellow pages and ask several to come by and evaluate your situation. You should have done this yesterday as it sounds like a significant tree you do not want to lose. Sea grape is generally known to be disease resistant. However, there are reported problems such as anthracnose infecting them. This needs treatment. Get a professional opinion. Please post back when you have a diagnosis as this is an interesting situation.

same but the bug is grey and tand ididnt see a red one and veeerryy tiny i cant feel the the just apper in my phone suddenly , i hate it and it feels itichy all over my body , ihave noticed maybe the cause of it a bird neesting in my window bacuse last year that happind and once i got rid of the nest they fainshed and now they come back as the onther bird nested and i felt sorry for the baby egg and didnt remove them ,but i dont think it a birdmites bacuse i looked at the pics of them and they dont look the same im so lost and i need the sloution to ger rid of them if anyone can help me to do so i will be gratfull