are slugs good for your garden?
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Outside the garden, slugs and snails actually do beneficial things. They recycle organic matter helping to build soils and they are important prey for other wildlife. Inside the garden and landscape, however, slugs and snails can do considerable damage and often must be controlled.
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When added to your garden, leaves feed earthworms and beneficial microbes. They lighten heavy soils and help sandy soils retain moisture. They make an attractive mulch in the flower garden. They're a fabulous source of carbon to balance the nitrogen in your compost pile.
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Slugs are actually a good choice for self-defense for a few reasons. As they are solid lead, they pack a wallop. If you're going to have a gun, any gun, for home defense, put in time at the range. You need to be able to hit what you're aiming at and a shotgun is not for “spray and pray.”
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Actually, Opossums are the Good for the Garden. ... If you let them, they can play an important role in your garden by chowing down on snails, grubs, beetles, rats, mice and gophers that might otherwise chow down on your crops or lawn. They also eat ticks, preventing Lyme Disease.
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Slugs will eat any kind of vegetation but prefer tender leaves. This means that particularly tender-leaved plants or seedlings are very vulnerable to slug damage. Slugs will also eat vegetables and fruits, causing unsightly damage to crops.
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What Are Slugs and Snails? While slugs and snails are common garden pests, they have little connection to garden insects. In the animal kingdom, these creatures belong to a category known as mollusks, the same group that includes octopuses and oysters.
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But, there are a handful of slug species that prefer to feed on living plant material, making them the bane of many gardeners. ... Not all species of slugs eat garden plants, but those that do can cause significant damage. Unlike snails, slugs don't carry a shell on their backs.
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Slugs feed on the leaves of strawberries and occasionally the fruit, and the rasping feeding of slugs leaves ragged holes in the leaves and fruit. ... Growers can seek to eliminate hiding places such as rocks, weeds, logs and boards to reduce the numbers of slugs.
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The Good. One positive aspect of having snails in one's lawn or garden is that they are great cleaners. Common snails prefer eating dead garden debris. In addition to being great cleaners, their waste is rich in nitrogen and mineral's meaning that any grass or plants will have increased nutrition.
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You want frogs in your garden. They eat insects (including mosquitoes), as well as slimy invertebrates (yes, slugs), and they are unbelievably cute. ... Frogs need pond plants to hide among, and to attract insects.
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Snails and slugs can affect any tender plants, lawn included. While they do feed on decaying plant matter they also feast on soft and succulent plant tissue. They demolish seedlings and can severely damage young shoots.
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Slugs: Slugs attack young hydrangeas especially. Look for holes with ragged edges in leaves. ... Beetles: From Japanese to Rose chafers, beetles are known for eating petals and leaves. Handpick beetles and drop them in soapy water or spray with Insect Control.
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Slugs are incredibly toxic and animals normally stay away from these cute little creatures and are extremely harmful to rabbits. ... The slug may carry lungworm larvae which can make the rabbit sick. The grass may be infected from it and if rabbit eats that grass or some other infected item, it will make him so sick.
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Slugs are rhubarb pests that are commonly found on the stalks and occasionally on the leaves. ... If the edges of the rhubarb leaves are being eaten away (jagged edges) or there are large holes in the leaves, or the stalks have scars, the problem may be slugs (see image below).
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Slugs even produce a foul-tasting substance as a defence mechanism, but this isn't always enough to stop dogs eating them anyway. Can slugs and snails harm my dog? Slugs and snails can carry the lungworm parasite, which can lead to serious health issues if passed on to your dog.
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Delphinium shoots are slugs' spring asparagus. The plants break through the ground in March and if you don't watch out, slugs can have every one. That's the moment for your nemaslug, or a dose of garlic.
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Slugs. Slugs come out at night and in moist weather to feed on your strawberries. They also leave behind slimy trails and ruin your plants' appearance. Remove fallen leaves, heavy mulch, and other excess debris from around your plants to take away the slugs' hiding spots.