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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Wrens & Slugs

Forrest --

If you go out in the garden and sit very quietly for a while, you'll see the
wrens down on the ground picking around the bases of the hostas and other
places where slugs hide for the day.  A wren's beak is like a fine set of
medical tweezers -- they find and extract the slugs while the slugs are
"sleeping."

If you can't actually catch the wrens "hunting," then you only have to sit in
view of the wren house for a while to see the mother wren going in and out, in
and out, in and out, all day long -- and every time she returns she's got a
slug or some other little noxious pest in her beak ready to feed to her
babies.

Dean Sliger
Ferndale, MI
Zone 6B
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