Author Topic: 'Alien' killer slug with razor-sharp teeth slithering round gardens in the UK (Read 3929 times)

neetbo · « **on:** July 11, 2008, 15:02:31 »

As if British slugs were bad enough.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1034333/Alien-killer-slug-razor-sharp-teeth-slithering-round-gardens-UK.html

daileg · « **Reply #1 on:** July 11, 2008, 15:27:16 »

yes we keep them in the green house so they dont eat the tomatoes we bred them on sheep lol

Duke Ellington · « **Reply #2 on:** July 11, 2008, 15:35:51 »

Holy crap! :o Maybe these white ones will eat the leaf eating common garden ones and then we have a problem solved!!

Duke

Baccy Man · « **Reply #3 on:** July 11, 2008, 16:44:42 »

Quote from: Duke Ellington on July 11, 2008, 15:35:51

Maybe these white ones will eat the leaf eating common garden ones and then we have a problem solved!!

Unfortunately that is probably wishful thinking. Although if a few were isolated & the only food source made available to them was regular slugs perhaps their dietary habits could be changed.

star · « **Reply #4 on:** July 11, 2008, 17:09:31 »

If their dietary requirements were to change to slugs rather than earthworms.....they would be welcome.

Robert_Brenchley · « **Reply #5 on:** July 11, 2008, 20:59:42 »

There are slug-eating slugs but they're rare now due to slug pellets. Any slug will join in the feast after you've squashed one.

posie · « **Reply #6 on:** July 11, 2008, 21:23:21 »

Saw it on the welsh news yesterday - they eat earthworms apparently. Freaky looking things!

sawfish · « **Reply #7 on:** July 12, 2008, 11:02:00 »

yeuch thats repulsive. Hope I dont come back as one of them in my next life.

thegreatgardener · « **Reply #8 on:** July 12, 2008, 13:24:10 »

sound like you better double the slug bate and coffee grounds around you plot.

vegmandan · « **Reply #9 on:** July 12, 2008, 15:28:33 »

The good old xenophobic Daily Mail.

Even the Slugs are foreign invaders which are going to take over and ruin the country.

I'm surprised they didn't suggest it came form Poland. ;D

Need a Leek · « **Reply #10 on:** July 12, 2008, 17:07:26 »

I expect they love a pint or two as well...Another pub chain on the market " Nip Sliding Away"....Paul Slimeon ;D.

Cheers
Tony

manicscousers · « **Reply #11 on:** July 12, 2008, 17:19:32 »

I wonder how long it'll take for someone to come up with a recipe to cook them ;D

Garden Manager · « **Reply #12 on:** July 12, 2008, 19:58:26 »

Looks and sounds horrible. Flatworms and harlequin ladybirds all over again. Poor old earthworms.Just shows yet again the folly of importing live plants from different parts of the world. You just cannot be 100% certain you are not also importing something nasty that will become a problem for our native flora anf fauna.

Still if these things are setting up home here its just a pity they dont eat other slugs!

Baccy Man · « **Reply #13 on:** July 12, 2008, 23:57:24 »

Quote from: manicscousers on July 12, 2008, 17:19:32

I wonder how long it'll take for someone to come up with a recipe to cook them ;D

Not very long.
http://bertc.com/slug_fritters.htm

Pesky Wabbit · « **Reply #14 on:** July 13, 2008, 00:29:29 »

Can you deep fry them ?

thegreatgardener · « **Reply #15 on:** July 13, 2008, 03:39:05 »

where can you French chef when you need one.

Robert_Brenchley · « **Reply #16 on:** July 13, 2008, 18:38:50 »

Glaze them with insect vomit and roast them with an apple in their mouth.

joie · « **Reply #17 on:** July 13, 2008, 20:37:10 »

please someone tell me this is all a wind up. cause slugs are bad enough ones with teeth terrify me, joie very frightened from durham. iwould have put a face at the end of this but it`s to frightened and it`s hidding xxx

DAVIESFOZZIE · « **Reply #18 on:** July 13, 2008, 23:20:18 »

as i live in Caerphilly they are widespread so i have heard killing earworms and ladybirds from europe which kill our own and other friendly insects this has to be a concequence of bad farming poor land management ets by our government. PS i saw a grasshopper on my allotment yeserday for the first time for XXX years. I hope thet are making a comeback

Robert_Brenchley · « **Reply #19 on:** July 14, 2008, 11:28:31 »

All slugs have teeth (I'm not sure whether this is the official term) on their tongues, and use these to rasp away at whatever they're eating. How would they devastate our veg without?

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Author Topic: 'Alien' killer slug with razor-sharp teeth slithering round gardens in the UK (Read 3929 times)