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Who eats slugs and snails?

DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
in Wildlife gardening
Did you know that slugs and snails form an important part of the diet of the Long-tailed Field Mouse aka Woodmouse? 

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  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    We hear in the Spring the tapping on stones/slabs the thrush bashing the snails to get at the food. The blackbirds are forever pulling apart leafy areas to find hidden inverts including snails.
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    The French are quite fond of them too - Snails that is - not sure they've progressed to Slugs yet  :D
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Well, it seems it’s possible ..,
    https://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/snails-and-slugs-ze0z1906znad/

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I think I'd rather eat a parsnip😝
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • WoodgreenWoodgreen Posts: 1,273
    If only my slugs weren't twice the size of my woodmice......
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    Snails - "purging for a day or so.....".  I was always told to do it for at least a week.  
    Boil Slugs in vinegar ......Mmm - I've got some spare vinegar - just need to catch a slug now  :D
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    If only wood pigeons ate molluscs
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    @philippasmith2. It’s easy to catch slugs and snails,   they don’t move that fast. 🐌 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • alfharris8alfharris8 Posts: 513
    Toads?
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    Well prepared and properly cooked, snails are a delicious meal.  They can be done in a tomato based sauce with Parma ham etc.  or in a creamy walnut sauce.  You know them as grilled with parsley and garlic which is also nice except this masks the taste of snail which is fairly bland.  Slugs - pass!
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

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