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Dovefromabove
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Apparently we live in the centre of the area invaded by Spanish Slugs and we've just found our first one.
We've reported it on this website http://www.slugwatch.co.uk/?p=90
Have you got Spanish slugs? If so will you help the experts at the John Innes Centre to monitor their spread and also find out more about their habits by reporting yours too 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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As they have also invaded scandinavia, I guess theres no chance of a good hard frost killing them off. Salt pots at the ready. I was a bit repulsed at them sliming over road kill, enough to make roads slippy.
I'm not sure I'd be confident IDing them...
How can you tell a Spanish Slug from a UK red slug?
Further reading also suggests there is a Spanglish hybrid although the article I read had something of the scaremonger about it.
I've got more species of slug than shown in the ID guide.
Are these the large orange/tan coloured ones that I don't remember from years ago?
If so, we have lots
In the sticks near Peterborough
ID guide here http://www.slugwatch.co.uk/?portfolio=spanish-slug you can compare it here http://www.slugwatch.co.uk/?page_id=21
We have the UK red ones in the garden - they're much redder than the Spanish one I saw this morning. I checked on the ID guide and it was pretty clear which is which. Our red ones are really orangey red and not mottled like the Spanish one.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Well, apparently they move faster than the British ones ............ and we have direct flights to Spain from Norwich International ............
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
More likely to be monorail.
They do sound very prolific and its very worrying that they could interbreed with our natives. We have enough as it is.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If we find any Dove,are we to send them to Verdun?
Well, it is his birthday - you could tie them up with ribbons
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.