The only good slug is a dead slug ☠️

roddydogs

When pound shops open again you get a big tub of slug pellets for guess what, £1.

DiggerUK

Slugs are not classed as vermin, unlike grey squirrels. There are no laws to protect slugs, a legal situation I fully support. There are laws to protect the environment, a legal situation I also fully support. 

I am asked by a poster to be mindful of the environmental damage caused by slug pellets, to date I have found no research that shows how slug pellets harm or damage the environment and I would be horrified to find I was ruining the environment. I'm sure I am not.

As to pound shop slug pellets......not quite the case anymore. The packages got smaller, and  ours now has a larger size at £1.75. Still cheapest about though..._

Davesnave

As with other pressing matters, the government made a decision and then changed its mind on metaldehyde pellets in agriculture. Now many of us are confused, just as we are about the banning and unbanning of Asulox, the most effective bracken control, where even the distributor seems uncertain and asks potential buyers to contact them for the latest info.

Fortunately, whatever governments think, chemicals do not go in and out of existence when they issue a decree, so those of us with a little foresight may have 'one or two' containers of forbidden stuff hidden behind the lawnmower and old bikes.

Back in 2002 (I think) the EU banned many effective chemicals, including one I still use on red spider mite. It actually works!

Farway

Davesnave said:

Green_hopeful said:

You are not going to like this but only the little grey slugs and larger black keel slugs really eat your living plants......Slug pellets are nasty chemicals which persist in the environment. 

Hopefully when he has finished saving humanity with a new shot for C'rona, Bill Gates will turn to finding a cure for slugs; probably one that will work well for a few years before mysteriously becoming corrupted and useless, requiring users to buy an improved version.....

Surely you'd only need to close the pack and open it again for them to work 

Davesnave said:

Fortunately, whatever governments think, chemicals do not go in and out of existence when they issue a decree, so those of us with a little foresight may have 'one or two' containers of forbidden stuff hidden behind the lawnmower and old bikes.

Back in 2002 (I think) the EU banned many effective chemicals, including one I still use on red spider mite. It actually works!

I was looking for my DDT only the other day, not checked behind the old bike yet