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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.
There are plenty of cheap not so good beers to use.
I’ll see that and raise you this.
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Years back we had them at my dads cottage in Michigan...he called them “monsters” and when we visited, at night he would give my kids (5) each a shaker of salt. They went monster hunting and the next day showed dad the ones they killed...there would just be a pile of slime where once there was a monster...got 25 cents for each one they killed. They are in their 50’s and still remember “monster hunting”. Of course they also had flashlights.
Cute. Nice memory. Except for the slugs, of course.
A bit of salt melts them away!
Try iron phosphate bait. But a surefire remedy is the “mist” these uglies with a water/ammonia mix from an old Windex bottle.
Godspeed from an ardent gardener,
Mrs. Esopman
ewwwwww I can’t stand them....
Helen Thomas and Debbie Wasserman-Schulz LIVE!
To #4: Or as the French would call them, “LUNCH”.
The Japanese would call them “Petit Sushi”
Michael Moore would call them, “My bedbugs”.
Looks like a Democrat convention.
Several!
Why yes, yes it did. LOL. They tried this strategy with nutria down in louisiana. It hasn’t worked so far.
CC
“I need a new keyboard”
Because it was funny and then you hurled, or because it was gross and then you hurled?
CC
don’ t slugs have some nasty parasites?
probably not when properly sauteed, with butter and garlic
The U.K. is a member of the E.U., so the slugs didn’t necessarily have far to go.
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