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Poisoning snails - poisoning birds?
david taylor wrote:
I used to think that blackbirds and thrushes would not touch slugs and snails that had been killed by pellets. I put down some pellets last year-they lay dry for about a fortnight. Heavy rain brought out the snails. They died in droves and with them a young thrush that had been eating the corpses. I'm now convinced that the demise of the song thrush is because of overuse of slug pellets by GARDENERS. I have stopped using metaldehyde pellets and put no toxic adsorbent as protection around special plants. I haven't worked out yet how to protect a Lewisia growing out of a wall. I may shell out for biological protection for my strawberries. "Jim S" wrote in message ... Of course, what you do in your garden is in practise completely insignificant to the poisons put down by farmers. -- Larry Stoter Gardens, even in SE Engalnd, cover a tiny fraction of the land. Farmers have a much greater influence on anything gardeners may do. That is not say that minmising the use of toxic chemical in gardens is not a good idea. -- Larry Stoter |
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