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Old 24-03-2005, 06:57 PM
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In article , Mike Lyle mike_lyle_uk@REM
OVETHISyahoo.co.uk writes

Meanwhile, do birds and
hedgehogs actually eat dead slugs and snails?


Something eats dead slugs. But it may well be other slugs.

If not, is a living
slug carrying a load of poison more of a danger to birds and
hedgehogs than a dead one?

I would have thought so. It worries me that poisoned slugs can travel
quite a distance before coming to a stop and therefore presumably have a
period where they may be indistinguishable from healthy ones as far as
predators can tell.

Research by the research arm of London Zoo suggests that the copper
content of slug pellets reaches frogs through their eating of slugs and
lowers resistance to a North American ranovirus which is currently
having big effects on frog populations in the S of England.
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