Slugs

[JonRB]

May sound like a daft question but why do slugs come out at night onto my garden path? Why at night? And where do they come from? What do they do during the day?

[buildersmate]

Because its cooler for their soft bodies and some of their predators (birds) aren't around. Hide under stones and rocks.

[youngando]

I HATE THEM KILL THEM ALL !!!

I paid �4.99 for a clematis and they scoffed the lot in one night ...

[maggie01]

Well mine lurk in the bushes during the day, watching to see if I put any new plants in and then when darkness falls they come out and eat them.

[sense4all]

I do know Calla lily plants are like slug caviar : I swear the had the lot before I reached the patio doors. CHAVS of the garden have now sent slug pellet ASBO s to them all.

[Thunderbird+]

Not a daft question at all, they are mostly nocturnal by nature and their night-time manuvers are can be especiallydevistating on wet evenings. This is why I prefere to water plants in the moring rather than at night, its one thing providing them with a meal but a drink to wash it down too ? forget it! Long live slug eaters! ie hedgehogs, badgers, birds and frogs and toads etc.

[shaneystar2]

They are swines of the highest degree! They spend the day lurking around under under cover laughing themselves silly and then come out at night and eat my lettuces.I had a thrush in my garden yesterday who snaffled one from under a stone and proceeded to roll it about in the earth and then devoured it bit by bit .I watched this through my binos with great joy !!!
I know you should live and let live but when I have gone to a great deal of trouble to grow and tend stuff I get soooo hacked off to find it decimated by these bggrs.