‘Super-sized sleepless slugs’ on the march
Alarming media reports of a new generation of ‘sleepless’ slugs predict a 10% increase in slug populations this summer.
‘Sleepless’, it turns out, doesn’t actually mean that the slugs are feeding 24/7, but that they didn’t hibernate. Last year’s wet summer, followed by the mild winter, meant that they continued to breed through the winter months.
Conservation charity Buglife is…