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If you are in Cambridgeshire-have they visited you

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OneFootInTheGrave

OneFootInTheGrave Report 6 Sep 2014 10:10

Slugs, like everything in an ecosystem have a role. They are composters so break down vegetation, and they are also a source of food for other wildlife. There are approximately 30 species of slug in the UK and there are four main pest species that are native to the UK. These four pest species cause approximately £8 million in damage to vegetable crops each year. On average a UK garden is home to over 20,000 slugs and it is estimated that an acre of farmland can support over 250,000 slugs.

Slugs move in rhythmic waves by contracting muscles on the underside of the foot. At the same time a layer of mucus is produced that helps to smooth the slugs path across the ground. This mucus is also used as the slugs navigation system, as slugs will find their way back to their tunnels and feeding sites by following their mucus trail.

I wonder if there are any of these slimy creatures in Westminster ;-)

Researching:
I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"

Dermot

Dermot Report 6 Sep 2014 09:54

Slugs must have been put on this earth for a reason - the answer eludes me at the moment.

Surprised they are not on the endangered species list with all these tales of extermination. And no, I don't want your slugs on my patch - just in case the idea crossed your mind. I have enough of my own already.

SOS - 'Save Our Slugs'. :-)

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond Report 6 Sep 2014 05:01

We have had ginormous ones in the garden, sort of yellowy tan coloured, but I have been scooping them up and sticking them in a tub of water, which started to smell awful after a few days.

I go out on slug patrol every evening unless it's chilly cos they stay hidden then. I will get rid of the beggars somehow, horrible things.

Lizx

OneFootInTheGrave

OneFootInTheGrave Report 5 Sep 2014 13:19

Budgie Rustler - thanks for that, but you could have waited till after I had my lunch :-D

Researching:
I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"

Budgie Rustler

Budgie Rustler Report 5 Sep 2014 12:35

This`ll teach ya to ask Ann... :-D :-D :-D

http://www.worldwidewounds.com/2013/July/Thomas/slug-steve-thomas.html

Researching:
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz3lwXEGWIM ... There is no God. No single Creator. There is only Creation itself. Creation does not need to be explained ... It just IS.

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 5 Sep 2014 09:00

anyone know what the purpose of slugs is? apart from eating our plants?

Researching:
Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me

Budgie Rustler

Budgie Rustler Report 4 Sep 2014 23:43

They came here in their long ships Bob, ya know, them with the shields all down the sides and oars sticking out. Some of them came up the river Trent and founded Nottingham, dontcha know, :-D :-D

Researching:
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz3lwXEGWIM ... There is no God. No single Creator. There is only Creation itself. Creation does not need to be explained ... It just IS.

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 4 Sep 2014 23:20

how have they got over here? have they come over in lorries, with illegal entrants?
cant see em swimming the channel...........

Researching:
me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

Phyll

Phyll Report 4 Sep 2014 20:28

I too 'asalt' all slugs

Researching:
Newman, Pavey, Sinden from Sussex. Latham from Bucks & Herts

LaGooner

LaGooner Report 4 Sep 2014 17:15

I am next door in Bedfordshire sitting here with large salt pot in hand :-D :-D :-D

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 4 Sep 2014 16:08

not Scandinavian as far as I know but plenty of Welsh ones - they are very athletic

as for spiders, I have one somewhere behind my computer here who is so big if I had it in my hand it would cover my palm!! don't mind spiders much - he appears every evening :-D

Researching:
Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me

Budgie Rustler

Budgie Rustler Report 4 Sep 2014 16:01

I thought all slugs were cannibalistic. Well they are in our back garden but they`re not that size though here, more like up to 4" may be the odd one a little over that.

Researching:
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz3lwXEGWIM ... There is no God. No single Creator. There is only Creation itself. Creation does not need to be explained ... It just IS.

DazedConfused

DazedConfused Report 4 Sep 2014 15:49

Do not know about giant slugs

The weather we have had lately seems to have encouraged some of the biggest spiders I have seen in years!!!! eeek ;-)

Researching:
We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!

OneFootInTheGrave

OneFootInTheGrave Report 4 Sep 2014 12:02

Giant cannibal slugs from Scandinavia are invading back gardens in Cambridgeshire.

The molluscs, which can grow to up to six inches long, appear to be resistant to slug pellets.

Gardeners and allotment holders have complained that the creatures are devouring their prized plants.

http://www.itv.com/news/2014-09-04/giant-cannibal-slugs-thought-to-have-come-to-britain-on-imported-salad-leaves/

Researching:
I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"