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falcon


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Fungi friendly nematode
#2012976 - 10/15/03 09:47 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Slug killer, anyone in the UK or Europe try this out yet?
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Paid
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Re: Fungi friendly nematode [Re: falcon]
#2012995 - 10/15/03 09:53 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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I use it on my own garden and several I look after, i have been for 5 years now and find it to be exallent, after 2 years it seems to keep going on its own :]
The worms eat the slugs and snals from the inside, so anything eating them, tremain unharmed, so its a great organic way to deal with the critters imo
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falcon


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Re: Fungi friendly nematode [Re: Paid]
#2013242 - 10/15/03 11:09 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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I don't think its available in the US yet. It sounds like a great. It has to be better than walking around at night with a flashlight and picking them. Which is what I've been doing for about 2 weeks now.
I have another question.
Every once in while I find a couple mating. I ussualy toss the pair in the lime water. Last week when I spotted a pair theyhad these little white specks moving pretty quickly along the outside of their bodies. Specks about 1/2mm moving at about 3 cm /sec. The slugs were probably brown garden slugs Limax flavus. Has anyone else seen this? Do you know if this is part of the slug life cycle or a parasite? I'm thinking life cycle these slugs looked healthy.
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Re: Fungi friendly nematode [Re: falcon]
#2013303 - 10/15/03 11:31 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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parasite i think, slugs mate by stabbing each other with what look like glass tubes, containing sperm. These are stabbed into any part, then snapped of
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zeronio
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Re: Fungi friendly nematode [Re: Paid]
#2013542 - 10/16/03 01:13 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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The researchers offers 5000$ for a worm infected slug! /me runs out of office and starts collecting slugs.
Ah... they're looking for a native american parasite. Well Paid could send infected slugs to an American who would claim that it was found there and collect the prize.
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Re: Fungi friendly nematode [Re: zeronio]
#2013641 - 10/16/03 02:07 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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slug post sent by snail mail ??
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falcon


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Re: Fungi friendly nematode [Re: Paid]
#2013916 - 10/16/03 06:25 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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falcon


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Re: Fungi friendly nematode [Re: zeronio]
#2015695 - 10/16/03 05:55 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thanks zerino I went right by that link, I found a sick slug.
If I find any more of those slugs with the white specks I will catch one and take a look under a microscope.
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r05c03
The Slug Scourge
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Re: Fungi friendly nematode [Re: Paid]
#2023759 - 10/19/03 08:35 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Just in case you ever wondered about slug love....

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