Posted on 09/04/2014 5:43:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Slugs of gigantium proportions are taking over Britain’s green spaces eating prize plants, small rodents and even excrement.
The slimy gastropods – called ‘Arion vulgaris’ – can reach a huge six-inches and are believed to have been carried over in Spanish salad leaves.
Worse, is that gardeners battling against this slippery armada are finding them resident to slug pellets leaving them powerless to protect their homegrown vegetables.
(Picture: Flickr/) One sick person even put them into a bucket together. Yuck (Picture: Flickr/Signe Karin) Sightings have been reported in East Anglia, the West Midlands, the New Forest, the south coast and even inner city areas like London have been unable to escape.
One woe-some gardener reported dozens of the cannibals feasting on his garden in Lode, Cambridgeshire yesterday.
He said: ‘I’ve never seen anything like them. They’re huge and they leave a trail behind them half an inch wide.
‘They don’t seem to be affected by pellets – the only way to stop them is to spear them. Luckily, I’ve finished growing many of the things in my garden so they haven’t done as much damage as they might have done.’
While this isn’t the first time the slugs have been seen in England (they were first spotted in 2010), the cold weather was thought to have killed them off.
But as their numbers grow, there are fears the giant slugs could interbreed with native ones creating a fearsome superslug that may resist the cold.
Watch out. You have been warned.
UKIP and Farage could ride this slug into being PM.
That will make a mess if you step on it!
More fun than a barrel of slugs.
Diatomaceous earth (Shell Flower)
Slugs of Unusual Size? I don’t think they exist! [/Princess Bride]
A real delicacy, escargantium.
Convince celebrities and trendy people they’re a rare spanish delicacy, and then charge £35 a plate for them. They’ll be gone in no time.
CC
Won’t they drown themselves in a dish of beer like other slugs? Perhaps Brits can’t see wasting good beer in such a manner.
That worked in relation to the “cockroach of the sea”.
That’s nothing.
We’ve got one of those suckers in the White House.
Slug, meet salt.
We use a good dump of table salt on ours. They sorta dissolve.
ROFL. Best laugh all day. Thank you.
For a second there I thought you were talking about unionized government employees!
Not as big as banana slugs
Slugs and chips?
What’s wrong with that?
I need a new keyboard.
Well bloody hell, giant escargot, wifey could suck a couple platter down, and usually does on cruises. Got any giant calamari uhhh squid.
Its obozzo comimg out,
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