Pest group
Slugs & snails
Ragged holes, slime trails, damage overnight; nothing to be seen by day.
Which one do I have?
- SnailsCornu aspersum (brown garden snail)The brown garden snail is the snail most often causing problems in California gardens, and one of the species most likely to be feeding on garden plants in Britain. It chews irregular holes by night and hides by day, much as slugs do. It also climbs trees, takes about two years to mature against three to six months for slugs, and can seal itself into its shell in hot, dry weather.Citrus · Lettuce & leafy greens · Hostas · Strawberry · Bedding plants · …
- SlugsDeroceras reticulatum and other speciesSoft-bodied molluscs that feed at night and hide by day, so the damage is found long before the culprit. Irregular holes, silvery slime trails and seedlings grazed to the stem are the signs. The grey field slug is among the main culprits in both UK and US gardens.Lettuce & leafy greens · Brassicas · Hostas · Strawberry · Potato · …
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macro · slugs, side by side
At a glance
- Species
- 2 profiled
- Controls
- 2 beneficials
- Settings
- Garden, Field, Under glass
- Crops
- 11 host crops
Beneficial
What controls slugs
Listed by how many of the species above each one is a control for. A generalist at the top is the safe first choice; a specialist lower down is the better one if you know which species you have.
Slugs & snails by crop
Each page is one species on one host: the host-specific control, rate and threshold.
- On citrusSnails