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Seaweed is salty, which slugs hate and, during hot weather, it becomes a rough gauntlet for them to climb over.
Slug it out with the pests; STAY HOT ON THE TRAIL OF SLUGS AND SNAILS USING THESE SIMPLE, CLEVER TRICKS BEFORE SUMMER'S SLIMY ARMY TAKES OUT YOUR PRECIOUS PLANTS
Caption: Slugs can eat many times their own weight each day.
Organic slug control
The Spanish slugs are believed to have hitched a ride to the UK on salad leaves in 2010 and were thought to have been wiped out by cold weather, but milder temperatures mean they are now back in force.
Cannibal superslug in garden rampage; 6-inch pests can survive 20 pellets
Foster-type slugs are designed to be used in smoothbore barrels.
Slugs in full-choke shotgun barrel?
What would happen if we used "for smoothbore barrel" rifled slugs in a rifled barrel or "for rifled barrel" sabots in a smoothbore?
Slugging away
Paul Hetherington, director of fundraising and communications at the charity BugLife, says: "All the anecdotal evidence points to the sheer numbers of slugs and snails this year.
Slugs, snails and slimey trails; Wet summer weather has boosted slug populations even further, Hannah Stephenson discovers. She talks to experts about how we can ever hope to save our plants from these slimy pests
There are more than 30 types of slug in the UK, some 95 per cent of which are underground, nibbling on seeds and roots and laying 20-100 eggs multiple times every year.
Slug it out with pests; GARDENING; Hannah Stephenson talks to the experts about about saving our plants from slimy invasion
The classic slug trap is beer in a saucer that is sunk level to the ground.
Cures for a sluggish garden
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
They provide the perfect hiding places for slugs in the daytime.
Prevent a slugfest with baits, upkeep
When the as-yet-unnamed slugs mate, one organ delivers the sperm to the female opening on another slug's body.
Stab in the head marks sea slug sex: hermaphrodite uses thin organ for injections near the eyes
Within 10 days, there had been 18,000 visitors to the site and more than 800 submissions, some reporting the Spanish slugs, Dr Bedford confirms.
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

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