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Post by Kevin on Jul 9, 2005 23:21:17 GMT
Found another Leopard Slug tonight, or rather my nephew spotted it, whille searching the garden...brings mine up to 4...I will want quite a few more yet, as I plan to give them pretty large housing
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Post by bookitten on Jul 10, 2005 11:36:31 GMT
Great! if anyone else finds any out there -- tell us!
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Post by Kevin on Jul 10, 2005 11:47:39 GMT
Actually found a online place that sells slugs (and snails) havent had a good look yet...They dont sell Leopard Slugs, I dont think...But they sell Garden Snails for around 83p each and the more common slug species Arion hortensis and Deroceras reticulatus, which I found loads of each time I try to find Leopards, for around 50p each if you work out the price for one.....I didnt know it was legal to sell native species? www.blades-bio.co.uk/molluscs.htmThey sell Larder Beetles though, they would come in handy for people wanting to preserve their snails shells, I may have mentioned them in the other thread, didnt know they could be bought on their own. DERMESTIES Larder Beetles A medium sized beetle used in the laboratory for skeletal preparation. LZJ 515per cultureĀ£8.61
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Post by bookitten on Jul 15, 2005 12:46:15 GMT
hellooooo? mike??? u said ur gran had loads of 'em. well? canya get sum?
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Post by thegreatloofa on Jul 15, 2005 13:25:47 GMT
Re-reading this thread gave me the impression that leopard slugs are less easy to find than they used to be.
My mother has said recently that she used to think that finding a snail anywhere a surprise, as in there were very few of them about, and these days they are all you can see, and it's the slugs turn to be harder to find.
I have also noticed this to an extent, but not as much as I ain't been around as long. Snails used to be much rarer than slugs, and now it's vice-versa.
Anyone else noticed this?
Could it just be a cyclical thing? Or a general trend?
Or have I been looking in the wrong places?
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Post by natrat84 on Jul 15, 2005 13:32:12 GMT
I've never seen a leapord slug. Only ever seen the yucky browny red things lol. Always seen alot of snails though, but I am only 21, I don't know how old you or your mum are...
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Post by thegreatloofa on Jul 15, 2005 13:34:18 GMT
I'm 20 and my mother is twice that.
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Post by Paul on Jul 15, 2005 13:57:53 GMT
I have noticed a huge explosion of Cornu aspersum in this country. Snails in the north of england used to be rare, I was asking mty dad and he said the were extremely unusual when he was a kid. In fact, seeing one would be a talking point. Now there are 1000s and 1000s of them everywhere. I see dead ones everywhere I go.
It may be that they are continuing spreading up north because winter's are milder and they are not being killed off. Also, there has been a dramatic fall in bird populations in this country, some species as much as 70% - mainly due to habitat destruction and intensive farming. That must have an effect. We don't have many varieties in our gardens up here, Cornu apsersum seems by far the most adaptable, even in low calcium areas like back yards.
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Post by thegreatloofa on Jul 15, 2005 14:10:51 GMT
I agree. Exept we have 10x more Cepaea Nemoralis than Helix Aspersa in our area...
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Post by bookitten on Jul 16, 2005 18:00:47 GMT
really? We have more helix aspera
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Post by Leah on Jul 16, 2005 19:07:24 GMT
Really?! I posted this on another thread but I found 65(!) Helix Aspersa under a heather bush in our garden the other day but I hardly ever see Cepaea Nemoralis.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2005 19:37:58 GMT
my garden probably has the most cepaea hortensis. although there are similar numbers of cepaea nemoralis, helix aspersa and trichia striolata.
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Post by Leah on Jul 16, 2005 21:05:43 GMT
what's trichia striolata?
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Post by bookitten on Jul 27, 2005 12:43:26 GMT
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Post by sezzy5889 on Jul 29, 2005 10:24:08 GMT
LOL LMAO ROFL ;D
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Post by thegreatloofa on Jul 30, 2005 17:30:22 GMT
Whats so funny?
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Post by Kevin on Jul 30, 2005 17:55:15 GMT
Whats so funny? Im thinking the same thing
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Post by Kevin on Aug 1, 2005 14:55:14 GMT
Whats so funny? Im thinking the same thing Well? whats so funny then? sezzy5889 did I miss something
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Post by bookitten on Aug 1, 2005 14:56:28 GMT
I agree! whatever was so funny?
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Post by anjieburdett on Aug 1, 2005 15:13:27 GMT
Maybe Sarah thought what i thought.
When i read Sophies post, with the photo, i read it as ... i found some slugs - heres a photo (and its soo obviously not a photo that Sophie took) - when i read it again i realised she meant 'i found this photo'. lmao.
You could read it and take it 2 different ways.
Maybe....
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