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    How far do slugs travel?

    As I'm too squeamish to cut slugs in half, did it once never again, I've taken to lobbing the big ones the hens won't eat into the allotment hedge or onto some waste ground. Anyone know how far they travel and do they really come back to where they came from?

    I did, at one time, collect them in a plastic tub taking them a long way down the road to the bus stop which is by a bit of no-mans land and liberated them there. Funny looks from other people and having to take them home one day due to bus being early meant this practice rather came to an end.

    Sue
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    Slugs will travel several feet or more. I've even found slugs eating apples off my tree.
    I'd say that at least some of your slugs will be coming back after throwing them into the hedge. Worse still, you may be dumping your problem onto the person on the otehr side of the hedge.
    Slugs will search out food sources - and it sounds like you have a really attractive food source that will keep attracting them.

    Squash them or chop them up. No mercy.
    If you can't squash them, post them to me! I'll do it with a size 12 boot in a matter of seconds - assuming that the postal service haven't crushed the package before it's arrival.
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    • #3
      Do you mean homing slugs? It would be an interesting experiment to 'tag' them and see how far they travel. I say give them a bus ticket and send off for a long trip!! I currently have slugs sitting on top of a 5ft high pumpkin plant that is growing up a fence.
      BumbleB

      I have raked the soil and planted the seeds
      Now I've joined the army that fights the weeds.

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      • #4
        Its true of snails...my neighbour and me tried it one drunken friday night..we put two different sticky labels off apples on to two snails, i put mine in her garden n she put hers in mine...following morning, back in there own garden...we just sat and laughed, so we decided to round all the snails we could find, put them in a large plastic container and she took them to Leeds where she works and let them go...they didn't come back from there..we still chuckle about it nearly 10 years on

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        • #5
          I've no idea how far they go but they come from miles and miles

          Seriously, I chuck 'em all to the chooks. They eat most and play rugby with the biggest until they're little enough to eat
          Last edited by pdblake; 08-08-2009, 12:36 AM.
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          • #6
            They don't come home after being given swimming lessons in a bucket of salty water.

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            • #7
              FB
              Nobody on the other side of the hedge - wouldn't be that mean!

              I love the idea of sticking markers on them to see if you find them again....

              My hens don't play football with the big ones, they escape and I get a horrible surprise when I lift up the big tile the hens feeder sits on. A ghastly knot of slugs of enormous proportions.

              Perhaps posting to Cambridgeshire is a bit excessive, I shall restart the slug mystery tour and take them down to the waste ground by the bus stop. Any slug that makes it back from there deserves a round of applause.

              Sue

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              • #8
                This is one i really couldn't kill, it was on the top of the wall at my sisters, i just had to take its photo..i don't often say this about snails, but how sweet ...Thats a 1p coin at the side of it...and it's poo's nearly as big as it.

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