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30-09-2017, 07:47 AM
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Giant Spanish Slugs

Just found one in my garden well actually eating the bird food .
Don't know what to do with it .
I can never kill anything maybe I will just chuck it into the field
But don't like to touch it it's so big.Yuk!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...ng-superslugs/
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30-09-2017, 08:18 AM
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Re: Giant Spanish Slugs

all slugs i find in my garden which amounts to more than the birds or frogs take get a dose of salt .
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30-09-2017, 08:19 AM
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I can't do it Eliza.


Have just gone out to take another look and he's gone .
Either something has ate him ( hopefully ) or he's the fastest slug in the West.
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30-09-2017, 08:43 AM
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Not sure what sort of slugs they are but the ones in my little garden seem to get bigger and bigger each year . The average a good 4inces long if not more.
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30-09-2017, 08:56 AM
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Maybe it wasn't a Spanish slug then just a big fat wiltshire slug.
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30-09-2017, 10:38 AM
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Re: Giant Spanish Slugs

I read about those in my gardening magazine.
Aren't they about 3" long and orange coloured?
There is concern we will get invaded by them and they are so hard to kill apparently.
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30-09-2017, 11:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Mups ->
I read about those in my gardening magazine.
Aren't they about 3" long and orange coloured?
There is concern we will get invaded by them and they are so hard to kill apparently.
You want to see what happens when one goes across a mousetrap.....YUK!
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30-09-2017, 11:40 AM
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Originally Posted by poohdog ->
You want to see what happens when one goes across a mousetrap.....YUK!

Ooh yes, I can imagine. As you say .. Yuk.
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30-09-2017, 01:24 PM
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Muddy ...the article says put out a saucer of beer which attracts them...
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30-09-2017, 01:40 PM
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Re: Giant Spanish Slugs

Originally Posted by Muddy ->
Maybe it wasn't a Spanish slug then just a big fat wiltshire slug.
Was it wearing a sombrero and carrying a stuffed donkey?
 

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