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Slugs and drought

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    "Spanish flu" started in the usa, but Trump didn't call it the american flu, unlike "the Chinese virus"  ( coronavirus to the rest of us ) which he was happy to bang on about.
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Scientists say they’re native to the Iberian peninsula…  Dr Bedford is well known around here …

    https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/slugs-are-coming/

    I’ve met him via mutual friends. He’s a very interesting chap 

    https://www.plantheritage.org.uk/events/suffolk/garden-bugs-cohabit-conserve-or-control-by-dr-ian-bedford/

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I was wonder if they get down so far by nibbling down a root and following the space left.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Big black slugs are generally OK because they like rotting plant matter.
    Saying that, the worst culprits here are leopard slugs, which apparently aren't a pest, because they don't bother plants and flowers. 😳
    Slugs can borrow about 18 foot down using their digging appendages like tiny mole hands. But seriously, they can burrow very deep down. Digging over the soil at certain times exposes their eggs, which I imagine are a tasty treat for some birds and animals.
    I've done so much slug picking over the years, I've actually grown very fond of the massive ones, lol, they're usually very well behaved. Occasionally I reward them with salad.


  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited August 2022
    Slow-worm said:

    Slugs can burrow 

    Only certain types of slugs.

    ""Spanish flu" started in the usa"

    I was wondering about that. Has any country named something nasty after their own country? And are any of the names particularly accurate? Spanish flu (1919) wasn't Spanish, JKW isn't particularly Japanese (or nasty over there), Dutch Elm Disease isn't particularly Dutch.

    Not nasty, but French toast, French letters, French kissing and French knickers are, none of them, particularly French. French marigolds come from Mexico.

    Only lovely things seemed to be named by their own country - like the English Rose. I'm not sure about American teeth.

  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    @Fire I was only joking 😄
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    I think naming 'bad' things after foreigners is as old as the hills but you are right, I can't think of a single example of giving them your own name. And yes, good things, obviously,  belong to us. I've no doubt this applies to every people under the sun.
  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428
    @Posy
    You are so right.
    The French call syphilis the Neapolitan disease and the Neapolitans call it the Venitian disease. 
    German measles is known as Röteln in German. 
    The Spanish flu is so called because the Spanish press, not being censored like others in Europe at the time  first reported it. In Italy it is called "la Spagnola". 

    Luxembourg
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Then there is zuppa Inglese.  English soup. How apt! The Italian version of the disgusting desert - trifle. Soggy sponge,tinned fruit, cold custard and cream with hundreds and thousands bleeding all over it . At Christmas, you can break your teeth on silver balls - delizioso😞
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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