In article , Nick Wagg
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Mind you, I don't know how else to encourage thrushes into a garden
except by having a plentiful supply of snails...

They need nesting sites, remember, and their diet isn't 100% snails ))
--
Jane Ransom in Lancaster.
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"Nick Wagg" wrote in message
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Martin & Anna Sykes wrote:

I read that glowworm grubs eat snails. Can they be bought as biological
control?
I quite like the idea of some wildlife that will both eat my snails and
light up the garden at night.

Try thrushes. If the sound of a snail being smashed to smithereens
on a stone or brick isn't music enough to your ears, listen to the
song.


I enjoy having song thrushes use my garden and indeed the sight of them
devouring snails pleases me, but I do wish they would clear up after
themselves as snail shell in bare feet is not nice. BTW do thrushes eat
slugs?


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Art

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Never seen one in the West Yorkshire Alps, but this Summer I found one on
the edge of a wheatfield in Normandy. It's bum was beautiful, but by golly
its face was ugly! I suppose you can't have everything.

Steve


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"K" wrote in message
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"Jane Ransom" wrote in message
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: I once went through my bird book from beginning to end to find out which
: birds ate slugs. The list is:
:
: starling
: partridge
: corncrake (rare, apr-sept)
: stone curlew (deep south only, mar-oct)
: spotted crake (waterside, apr-dec)
: black tailed godwit (coastal)
: moorhen (waterside)
:
: I think you will find hens will eat your slugs as well!!!
: --
: Jane Ransom in Lancaster.

The only one we are likely to get in our garden is the starling - and we
get
plenty - but they're not doing a very good job :O((((

Same here. The slugs are under cover by day when the starlings are active
and the starlings are open ground birds.
Do hedgehogs eat slugs

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Art

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What the bloody hell is a glowworm?????

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: What the bloody hell is a glowworm?????
:
How to show your ignorance in one easy step!!!!!

"K" wrote:

How to show your ignorance in one easy step!!

Not to mention lack of couth. And I ain't that %$#&$(^ couth myself!
It's cold. I'm cranky.


Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at www.albany.net/~gwoods
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1200' elevation. NY WO G

To you Stuff your attitude up your ASS!!!!!!

On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 08:08:20 -0500 (EST),
wrote:

What the bloody hell is a glowworm?????

Have a look at
http://website.lineone.net/~galaxypi...20glow%20worms

HTH

--
Cheers, Serena

Where nothing is sure, everything is possible (Margaret Drabble)

On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:50:22 -0500 (EST),
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To you Stuff your attitude up your ASS!!!!!!

Aha, another sad inadequate.

Norman Tulloch

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: To you Stuff your attitude up your ASS!!!!!!

Unfortunately as much as I love them, I don't have a donkey.

"Norman Tulloch" wrote in message
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On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:50:22 -0500 (EST),
wrote:

To you Stuff your attitude up your ASS!!!!!!

Aha, another sad inadequate.

Norman Tulloch

He's only doing it for attention, perhaps he' s a child, if he's ignored
perhaps he'll go away.

--
Carol

"K" wrote in message
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: What the bloody hell is a glowworm?????
:
How to show your ignorance in one easy step!!!!!


Sorry? He asked a straight question in a light hearted manner and get abuse
from you.
I bet he knows things you don't, Dahlias for example, so would you expect
abuse from him if you asked about them.
Or are you such a prude that "bloody hell" offends you?
For goodness sake lighten up and smile.

--
Bob
http://www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an allotment site
in Runnymede, fighting for its existence against bureaucracy.

The message
from "Sue & Bob Hobden" contains these words:


"K" wrote in message
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: What the bloody hell is a glowworm?????
:
How to show your ignorance in one easy step!!!!!


Sorry? He asked a straight question in a light hearted manner and get abuse
from you.
I bet he knows things you don't, Dahlias for example, so would you expect
abuse from him if you asked about them.

Probably, if the question was framed as "What the bloody hell do you
know about dahlias?".

Or are you such a prude that "bloody hell" offends you?
For goodness sake lighten up and smile.

It seems your sense of humour and sophisticated liberality regarding
free expression does not extend to K, ......how's your greenhouse?

Janet.

"Sue & Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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: "K" wrote in message
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: : What the bloody hell is a glowworm?????
: :
: How to show your ignorance in one easy step!!!!!
:
:
: Sorry? He asked a straight question in a light hearted manner and get
abuse
: from you.
: I bet he knows things you don't, Dahlias for example, so would you expect
: abuse from him if you asked about them.
: Or are you such a prude that "bloody hell" offends you?
: For goodness sake lighten up and smile.
:
: --
: Bob
: http://www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an allotment site
: in Runnymede, fighting for its existence against bureaucracy.

No, I am not a prude and I am not that easily offended, but I feel it is
hardly the way to get a civil answer. If I didn't know what a glowworm
was, I'd either look it up in a dictionary or put it into a search engine.
Why don't you answer his/her question instead of having a go at me. If you
think my reply was abuse, I think you are the one who needs to lighten up.

K