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    Leopard slugs?
    Any ideas.
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    Feed the soil, not the plants.
    (helps if you have cluckies)

    Man v Squirrels, pigeons & Ants
    Bob

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    I think (but am by no means sure) that those are common'yellow garden' slugs. Leopard slug markings are considerably more defined.....kind of like a giraffes neck rather than smudgy camoflage.

    Sorry.
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    • #3
      And full grown leopard slugs are BIG.
      Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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      • #4
        Thank you both.
        Taken more phots and compared with online pictures.
        These have blue tentacles, so not good.
        I have seen some leopard slugs but these are definitely not.
        Wonder if the neighbor wants them in his garden.
        Feed the soil, not the plants.
        (helps if you have cluckies)

        Man v Squirrels, pigeons & Ants
        Bob

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          big and horrible things take a man's arm off that could
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          Last edited by weed; 27-04-2015, 05:21 PM.

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          • #6
            Found a leopard slug this evening in the GH, but all the ones I have seen in and about my garden(and always on their own), are not what I would call large, not alone man eating size.
            This may change when I reduce the amount of European Red Ants and more live food becomes available.
            Feed the soil, not the plants.
            (helps if you have cluckies)

            Man v Squirrels, pigeons & Ants
            Bob

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            • #7
              I suppose on the good side - if this type of slug is that big it makes it easier to spot. Lets be realistic if that monster was munching on cabbage, lettuce or anything with a largish leaf its body weight would bend the leaf over and then it could be stomped on.
              Last edited by Lumpy; 27-04-2015, 06:10 PM.
              I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison

              Outreach co-ordinator for the Gnome, Pixie and Fairy groups within the Nutters Club.

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              • #8
                Whatever they are they seem very much in love.
                photo album of my garden in my profile http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...my+garden.html

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by fishpond View Post
                  Thank you both.
                  Taken more photos and compared with online pictures.
                  These have blue tentacles, so not good.
                  I have seen some leopard slugs but these are definitely not.
                  Wonder if the neighbor wants them in his garden.
                  They'll only come back. Bite the bullet and do away with them. Yellow slugs LOVE seedlings!
                  Location - Leicestershire - Chisit-land
                  Endless wonder.

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                  • #10
                    Identification Guide | SlugWatch

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                    • #11
                      They say that we learn something new every day - my lesson today is 'slug'. I didn't realise there were so many species and if it was not for the fact that they are destructive to the point of oblivion I quite like the name of the Spanish Stealth Slug - the secret service of the slimey world.
                      I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison

                      Outreach co-ordinator for the Gnome, Pixie and Fairy groups within the Nutters Club.

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                      • #12
                        I'm sure I once read that it's the small slugs which are the more destructive ones and annihilate our plants and the big ones eat decomposing stuff

                        Those big ones are so pretty I'd be tempted just to collect them up in a tub and release them a mile or two down the road in a nature reserve or wood etc.
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