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The hostess walks around the farm wearing gloves and huge tongs, picking them up and loading them into a bucket. Every time he says he picks up half a bucket and more. The owner walks the farm with a special selection, he also “hunts” at least a number of slugs.
So thousands of locks crawl onto the farm.
Their nests are believed to be in a park next to the farm, planted 50 years ago. The park can hardly be called an area covered with trees and grassland, which no one visits.
The eldest has no funds
Stanislovas and Adelė Benkunskai say that invasive invertebrates appeared in the park area a few years ago. But in the past two years, they have been drawn in such a way that it is no longer possible to hate their neighborhood. And their numbers are constantly increasing. Apparently, it’s not for nothing that scientists say invasive brown slugs lay around 400 eggs during reproduction. As a result, their number increases hundreds of times each year.
The grassy park, which must be managed by the elderly, is an excellent environment for them to live and reproduce.
“We have noticed that the grass in the park is cut only once a year and this has been the case for at least 10 years.” We can no longer count how many times we have reported this unpleasant situation to Elder Dalia Drobniene, and especially now that the park area has become a breeding ground for invasive slugs. However, we only heard one response from the old man: Lack of funds to mow the lawn in those areas. This year, the old man sent workers, who were told to cut a couple of rows around the fence of the farm, and the entire territory of the park remained uncut, “says Benkunskai.
Invasive slug damage to garden plants
According to the hosts, they really don’t believe the old man is doing this on purpose, due to some anger over them. However, it is clear that she has no understanding of the evil of rapidly multiplying invasive slugs. There are already many of them outside the Benkunskai farm, in the poorly maintained meadow of the neighbors. It can be assumed that after a few years, they are already real throughout Rusnė.
The researchers claim that where slugs take root, about 70 percent of them disappear. common breeding grasslands.
By the way, when driving through the city of Rusnė, it can be noticed that in some areas, thanks to old age, the grass is cut with special diligence. Don’t you think there are fewer guests walking down the embankment street on the Atmata coast? All they have to do is marvel at the tall grass of the park.
There are combat methods
Such “maintenance” of the park’s lawn leads to despair, because the most reliable way to destroy invasive slugs is through intensive cutting, “says S. Benkunskas. If the bare meadow remained, the birds, moles, and hedgehogs would easily pick up the slugs that escaped from the mower blades. The slugs could also be poisoned. However, scientists do not recommend doing so, because poisoned slugs would also kill our traditional animals and birds.
The innocent poison is salt. So, S. and A. Benkunskas have thoroughly sprayed a strip of salt around the edge of their house. Several slug bodies can be seen in that strip, but a considerable number of them climb and continue towards the farm through the hill of salt.
Invasive slug damage to garden plants
The Benkunski have no doubt that this is no longer a disaster just for them. Efforts must be made to ensure that invasive slugs do not reproduce or expand their conquered areas.
Without receiving help from the elder D. Drobnienė, S. and A. Benkunskai asked for help and invited Virgilijus Pozingis, the director of the Municipal Administration, to the guests. He, according to the hosts, saw so many nasty creatures, even clutching his head …
The mayor of the municipality, Vytautas Laurinaitis, said that he had never heard of invasive slugs and the excessive reproduction of this population. After hearing that news late last week, he became very interested and promised to invite professionals to advise him on how to effectively combat this evil.
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