Re: Slugs and Slaters (No. 2)

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• To: B*@monterey.edu
• Subject: Re: Slugs and Slaters (No. 2)
• From: "* G* <s*@hotmail.com>
• Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 23:00:57 PST

Yes - this is the first garden in which I have known them to be a 
problem - I always thought that they only ate decomposing (not live) 
matter. But late night garden visits with a torch has proved otherwise. 
A few months ago I planted some viola seedlings and couldn't work out 
why they were being decimated - thought it was slugs but no it was 
slaters!! A friend who lives close by is continually experiencing slater 
house invasions (she is on a concrete slab with a continuous surface on 
to the terrace) so she is vacuuming them up. As my house is on stumps I 
don't seem to have that problem at least.

And 3 feet long is a horrible horrible thought - imagine being 
'arachnidphobic' as well as 'crustaceanphobic'!!  

Susan George
McCrae, Australia

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>Subject: Re: Slugs and Slaters (No. 2)
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>Interesting that they have gills. Although they do have counterparts in
>the deep seas, and these get 3 feet long (imagine them that big on
>land!) Anyways, as little kids here in cali we called them "Rolly
>Pollys" (like roll-e pole-e's). Anyways ive been told that they eat
>rotting leaves and detritus, however they tend to congregate in places
>like between the leaves of "rosette" forming plants. Ive never found
>them to do harm (then again weve had less since we eliminated the
>Kikuyu lawn)
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