• Question: What do you think of slugs? @sluglife haha

    Asked by Cabbagelife to Carrie, Cedric, Ellen, Ines, Rupert on 8 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Carrie Ijichi

      Carrie Ijichi answered on 8 Mar 2017:

      I think slugs get a hard time but when they eat one of my lovely plants I have to work hard to remember its not their fault. Like everything on earth, they’re just trying to survive and doing what they’re evolved to do!

    • Photo: Ines Goncalves

      Ines Goncalves answered on 8 Mar 2017:

      Nothing much really, although there were some giant ones in Sweden that looked a bit… yuck. I’ve never had a garden though, so I haven’t had problems with slugs.

    • Photo: Ellen Williams

      Ellen Williams answered on 9 Mar 2017:

      When i was a kid my Mom told me i used to love slugs… in fact to the point where i used to get very excited and say ‘ug, ug, me like ugs, ug on me’ before i then pestered her to ‘let the slug sit on my knee’. I don’t have quite that level of relationship with them now… i think the speckledy ones are pretty cool, but i probably wouldn’t invite them round for dinner, or indeed let them sit on my knee!

    • Photo: Rupert Marshall

      Rupert Marshall answered on 10 Mar 2017:

      Slugs look horrible and eat people’s plants. But we would be lost without them – they eat dog poop when bad people don’t scoop it up in parks. Clean pavement? Thank the slugs

    • Photo: Cedric Tan

      Cedric Tan answered on 14 Mar 2017:

      haha nice question, especially since slugs eat cabbages.

      I think they perform an important role in ecology as many animals like birds and badgers feed on slugs. In terms of slugs, I am not really put off by their slimy squishy nature, not that I want to touch them either haha

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