Forum home Wildlife gardening
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

Slugs and snails

2»

Posts

  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I often found snails and little grey slugs eating the same plant in my old garden. Maybe I just had more of the blighters than you!
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    I know one thing for certain, whatever their socialising habits are there are more of them this year than I've ever known. They are eating plants that they don't normally bother with. Mark my words fellow forumers, they will be after us next and woe betides us when we attempt to get out into their garden. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    They certainly party together in my garden! I know because I pick them off everything in spring - the little black ones normally just go for dead stuff, as do the stripy snails and cellar slugs, garden snails and leopard slugs do most of the damage. Big slugs sometimes get told off, but they're generally not a problem. 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I find them pretty close by but not snuggled up unless a slug is eating an ex-snail.

    I did find some slugs hiding on metal - and that scotches my theory that they don't like the taste.
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Here's two cuties having an intimate date on my lawn. 😊
Sign In or Register to comment.