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Every week something is attacking your plants. Check them out and be prepared to deal with the situation.
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Name search.
Use the search box on the left if you know the name of the pest you are looking for. The first result will load into the panel below and any other matches are listed in the right-hand panel. Only common names loaded at present.
Symptom search.
Result will be displayed below. Please scroll down to view.
If you have a sick plant with no obvious cause present, use the search box on the right entering one or two words describing the problem. Simple phrases like 'leaves eaten' or single keywords like 'yellow' work best. As with the name search, matches are listed in the right column and displayed in the panel below.
Search Results.
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Slug
- Pest type - Mollusc
- Infects - Fruit, Tubers, Foliage, Soft stems,
- Host plants- Herbaceous, Low-growing, Bulbs, Soft fruit, Tubers, Non-specific,
- Symptoms- Holes in leaves: Leaves eaten: Slime trails:
Slugs are 'snails without shells' and come in many different colours and sizes. They all eat the gardener's flowers from top to bottom, flowers, leaves, stems and even roots and fruit.
The one good thing about some slugs is the fact that they eat each other, and the dead snails you stood on yesterday.
Control is much the same as for snails, with slug pellets being the primary method of control. Keeping toads in the garden will assist in keeping the numbers reduced but it is an ongoing battle with no end.