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Slugs fall in and drown - you just have to hope they head straight to the beer trap before they eat all your plants.
SLUGS often do most damage [...]
Of these, 114 involved Metaldehyde, which is the toxic ingredient in slug pellets.
Vets warn over slug pellet poison peril; ANIMAL HEALTH
Sarah says slugs and snails can be a real problem for gardeners, by turning their hobby into a "true 24 hour activity".
Slugging it out; THIS year is set to be the worst on record for slug and snail infestations. Sarah Fuller of Wyevale Garden Centres, which owns Stockton Garden Centre on Yarm Road, explains how to do battle with the gardener's arch enemy..
A copper strip around each pot stops slugs passing over it - they don't like the static shock.
How to... Remove slugs and snails
Two smaller species in this family, Arion Iratii and Arion Fagophilus were found only in woodlands in South Wales, and are most closely related to slugs from the Pyrenees of Spain and France.
Gardeners warned of alien slugs invasion
Slugs are essentially snails without shells, Dill said.
Prevent a slugfest with baits, upkeep
In the matings that Lange observed, all slugs stabbed their partners in the head, rather than a different body zone or a mix of targets as related slugs do.
Stab in the head marks sea slug sex: hermaphrodite uses thin organ for injections near the eyes
Last year, however, was a different story as, following a mild spring and wet summer, Dr Bedford found Spanish slugs ravaging his own garden in Norfolk.
Slug it out with the slimy pests; in the wild
Other plants not favoured by slugs include azaleas, pieris, geraniums, mature shrubs and conifers, although Dr Bedford points out that last year Spanish slugs ate his buddleia and rudbeckias.
Spanish slug set to leave silver trail of destruction; Entomologist Dr Ian Bedford tells Hannah Stephenson that we must be vigilant to stop a European invasion changing the face of British gardens forever
He's done exactly that with today's lead-free lines of Sauvestre rifle and shotgun slug ammunition.
Sauvestre's high-tech slug
As slugs and snails are particularly rampant in my area, I have resorted to putting young leafy plants, which these pests love, in pots and either placing the pots on metal stands which slugs have trouble in climbing, or putting copper strips around the pots to deter them.
SLUG IT OUT
The best of today's slugs and slug guns can de liver accuracy as good as many ordinary hunting rifles out to 100 yards, 150 yards, and even beyond.
Slugfest! Technological and tactical advances have changed the way we pursue whitetails with shotguns, and hunters are taking notice

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