Slugs Eat Entire Garden

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If you have slugs in your garden be glad you don’t live in Sweden where Spanish slugs, Arion Lusitanicus, are taking over gardens.

One garden had all its plants eaten by slugs in just a few days when the owner was away on vacation. Over 900 slugs were picked from the garden.

In another garden, a woman picked 1,773 slugs in one day.

A man reported that he killed 4,700 slugs in one day, and 27,700 for the entire summer.

The wet, hot summers in Sweden are bringing out the Spanish slugs called killer slugs because they are cannibals who eat the weak and dead of their kind. This species of slug grows to 6 inches in length. Each slug can produce 400 baby slugs.

The Spanish slugs have no natural predators. Even animals who chomp on the pests spit them out when they get a mouthful of slime.

Here are more tips to reduce the slugs in your home garden.

Author Marilyn Pokorney
Copyright Marilyn Pokorney 2019