• Question: why are there so many slugs in our garden this year?

    Asked by 982bsmf24 to Ellen, Elliot, Hazel, Rupesh, Thomas on 21 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Elliot Jokl

      Elliot Jokl answered on 21 Jun 2016:


      I did a quick google!

      Apparently, the best weather scenario for slug eggs to survive and hatch is to have a wet summer followed by a mild winder. Then the following spring/summer, lots of eggs will hatch meaning a lot of slugs. Our weather over the past year has been the right type of weather for this.

    • Photo: Rupesh Paudyal

      Rupesh Paudyal answered on 22 Jun 2016:


      I tweeted about this about 3 months ago.

      Normally the slugs go to sleep during the winter because it is cold below 5C, and when the weather is above 5C they stay awake and eat and breed continously.

      So because the weather this winter was mostly above 5C they were breeding all the time so all those baby slugs from egges are now coming out and we see a lot of them!

    • Photo: Thomas Biggans

      Thomas Biggans answered on 22 Jun 2016:


      By what Elliot and Rupesh have said its all about the weather and how warm its been,

      Personally I don’t like slugs that much, do you?

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