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.
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!
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