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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8004453/Snails-have-homing-instinct-amateur-scientist-discovers.html

yeh homing instinct straight to my lettuce

Straight in the back door normally  ;D ;D ;D

And back out again....... ;)

Wonder if it is same for slugs.

Their homing instincts do seem to be impaired from the bottom of a bucket of salty water. ;D ;D

valmarg

.................or when whacked into orbit with a rounders bat!

No nuts Sherlock!

Once well squashed the hedgehog hoovers them up and takes them home in its belly.

Mine get launched with the slugs over the fence for the birds in the park.    ;D ;D ;D

Trying to find the piece I posted years back about homing snails. there were some very funny (hah ha) responses on it, if I remember correctly.
Always thought it was The Gurniad which did dodgy science.

Palustris - I remember that! I've had a search and I think the thread you're looking for was titled 'Do slugs go to heaven' - in March 2005. x

I've bumped in Palustris, its in Edibles.     ;D ;D ;D

If the research for it had been mine pehaps I would have had a piece to myself all over the newspapers. Sadly I got the information from a University study,done a few years previously.
Just to put things in perspective, a garden in Manchester kept records of snail destruction. In the one year they removed over 200, 000 of them, but the telling phrase was, ' with no visible diminution of numbers'.
Wish people would learn that 85 percent of British slugs are either carnivorous and eat other slugs or have raddula too weak to chew green material and live on already dead or decaying vegetation. Snails are the real damage doers.