Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: annieanne49 on June 28, 2016, 19:51
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Can anyone tell me if this is one of those Spanish slugs. Found it on my wheelie bin which I use as a garden compost bin and there's a few more inside it yuk
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That just looks like a normal common garden slug. They are either black or red (red to orange) with an orange fringe. They can grow to 5 inches.
The Spanish slug is brown and about 3 1/2 inch to 4 1/2 inch.
Good video that shows its colour and head.
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There is a good identification guide for slugs here;
http://www.slugwatch.co.uk/?page_id=21
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Presumably, after we leave the EU, Spanish slugs won't have automatic right of entry to the UK.
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Punishable by squashing.
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:D :D :D
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This slug (or its relatives) has been living in my compost heap for several years. I'm kind of reluctant to kill it, but it does look very like a Spanish slug. So does the one at the top of the thread, you can just see it's little dark horns peeping out. I don't know who the culprits are who eat everything I leave un-protected in the garden, and who coated the tent in slime, but if this big slug is in fact eating other slugs and keeping some sort of balance, I don't want to kill it. I kind of get the impression from what I read that if it was Spanish, I would be overrun with thousands of them by now.
Verdict?
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This slug (or its relatives) has been living in my compost heap for several years. I'm kind of reluctant to kill it, but it does look very like a Spanish slug. So does the one at the top of the thread, you can just see it's little dark horns peeping out. I don't know who the culprits are who eat everything I leave un-protected in the garden, and who coated the tent in slime, but if this big slug is in fact eating other slugs and keeping some sort of balance, I don't want to kill it. I kind of get the impression from what I read that if it was Spanish, I would be overrun with thousands of them by now.
Verdict?
I agree with you Hester -- we have had these huge bad boys for years, and deal with them by torchlight to keep their numbers down. I try not to take them to the plot in the compost bucket as it seems silly to import slugs there to add to the normal population
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I agree too.
It's got the 'saddle' and the size / colour - http://www.slugwatch.co.uk/?portfolio=spanish-slug
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OK it is war on the big grey ones with stripy skirts. Fortuitously it rained last night and there were loads of them rampaging round the lawn, so a basin of boiling water has done for that lot, but I fear I will never win as they must have been procreating like mad in the meantime...
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:lol:
Sounds like war for sure :lol: