Slugs
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Slugs are one of the most common and serious pests in the garden. They eat seedlings, plants and fruit and vegetable crops. They can be so damaging that vulnerable young seedlings left unprotected can be totally destroyed in one night. Slugs are similar to snails, but they have no shell. Instead they have a horny plate concealed under the mantle or saddle. Slugs are active only when the temperature is above 5 degrees C. In dry, cold weather they stay deep in the soil. Fortunately, they are eaten by a range of wildlife including hedgehogs, foxes, badgers, many birds, slow worms, violet ground beetles and Devil’s coach horses. The cheapest way to control slugs and snails is to go out at night and pick them up by hand. However, we do have alternative methods of control.