I know I had at least one night time Salad fight - which probably was my first encounter with them. Judging on how quickly we all died I decided we probably weren't ready to go west just yet and spent additional time doing in monsters in the east. There after all my west gate encounters with the Salads were during the day. Though they don't spawn as often as other monsters I've had a few show up unexpectedly and most of those were daylight encounters. They remain one of my favorite monsters!
