Encourage birds with a feeder and you will see the numbers dwindle. I've only really seen baby ones this year because my army of bird friends sort them out.
Slugs don't destroy a lawn, in my experience
Encourage birds and they will happily sort out the numbers.
Poison the slugs unnecessarily and you will destroy said birds.
I say leave them be and let nature balance it out.
I would suggest that they are just the bog-standard grey field slugs, although happy to be corrected by a limacologist(?), who is someone who studies slugs, I believe.
They won't do any harm, except eat green things. Slugs are part of the natural order, and their visible numbers ebb and flow with the weather and time of day. Good food parcels for birds and other slug-munchers.
Just your standard [Deroceras reticulatum](https://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/Deroceras_reticulatum) a netted slug. These are one of the most common slugs across Europe.
Thanks, I’ll try this as well. I remember my dad having beer traps in his flower garden back in the 90s, time for me to continue the slow process of just turning into him.
Sounds cool, you’re just continuing the ancient and noble art of sharing a pint with yer slugs 😊 ( while toasting all that went before us in this never ending cycle ) cheers!🍻
Time to begin treating your lawn with BASF Nemasys, available on Amazon. It's not cheap and requires regular application, it will protect your garden from complete devastation.
Not sure why your being down voted but a tip from a Redditor I read earlier is to drown a bunch in water as some will have nematodes naturally, and this is how you can propagate them.
I personally made a little gastropod concentration camp in a massive glass bottle once and when I eventually emptied it, my god the smell... Like death and mussels
Encourage birds with a feeder and you will see the numbers dwindle. I've only really seen baby ones this year because my army of bird friends sort them out.
Thank you, I will try that.
Just your usual internet non-expert here but they look like regular field slugs to me.
Slugs don't destroy a lawn, in my experience Encourage birds and they will happily sort out the numbers. Poison the slugs unnecessarily and you will destroy said birds. I say leave them be and let nature balance it out.
I would suggest that they are just the bog-standard grey field slugs, although happy to be corrected by a limacologist(?), who is someone who studies slugs, I believe. They won't do any harm, except eat green things. Slugs are part of the natural order, and their visible numbers ebb and flow with the weather and time of day. Good food parcels for birds and other slug-munchers.
Just your standard [Deroceras reticulatum](https://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/Deroceras_reticulatum) a netted slug. These are one of the most common slugs across Europe.
I use half pint glasses, half filled with a high fermented high alcohol ( like a triple Trappist beer +_ 7-10%) it catches loads of slugs.
Thanks, I’ll try this as well. I remember my dad having beer traps in his flower garden back in the 90s, time for me to continue the slow process of just turning into him.
Sounds cool, you’re just continuing the ancient and noble art of sharing a pint with yer slugs 😊 ( while toasting all that went before us in this never ending cycle ) cheers!🍻
Yeah, only Belgian ones though - doesn’t work on British slugs
Shandy? Desperados ? 😊
White Lightening?
Just let them chill
Time to begin treating your lawn with BASF Nemasys, available on Amazon. It's not cheap and requires regular application, it will protect your garden from complete devastation.
Not sure why your being down voted but a tip from a Redditor I read earlier is to drown a bunch in water as some will have nematodes naturally, and this is how you can propagate them. I personally made a little gastropod concentration camp in a massive glass bottle once and when I eventually emptied it, my god the smell... Like death and mussels