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Shouts Skujienė, an associate professor at the Institute of Biosciences at the Vilna University Life Sciences Center and a doctor of biological sciences, stated that she is a Lucitan arion. It is an invasive species of mollusks that arrived in Lithuania from Spain and reproduces very quickly. If they have spread, then destruction is very difficult.
The farm was sold due to slugs
According to tv3.lt, a Vilnius resident and his wife decided to sell their house in the Vilnius district because they no longer knew how to fight the rapidly multiplying invasive slugs.
“Neighbors bought non-native plants and had a lot of slugs, which spread across the area in a couple of years.
They gnawed all the salads and the flower beds of the wife. We still try to fight and we gather in plastic bottles with salt in the afternoons. We collected over a hundred overnight.
Seeing that we would die in the uneven fight against slug fertility, we placed an ad and sold the farm, “said Marius from Vilnius.
The man said that buyers had been warned that there were many locks on the farm, but it suited them. Half a year later, they said that after receiving a call, they didn’t think there were that many slugs and they no longer knew how to deal with them.
“Of course, they have no natural enemies in Lithuania, the climate has warmed up, the humidity is sufficient. Not like in their native Spain, where drought was the main enemy.
The second reason for the sale was our age, it became difficult to take care of everything, “said the man.
According to the interlocutor, invasive slugs are attracted so much in Lithuania, Samogitia, Aukštaitija and elsewhere that people no longer have to fight them. They spread throughout Lithuania and are not afraid of anything.
Mass broadcast
G. Skujienė, an associate professor at the Biosciences Institute of the Vilna University Life Sciences Center and a doctor of biological sciences, stated that these slugs are multiplying very rapidly in Lithuania. They can lay even after 200-400 eggs.
“I understand a Vilnius resident who sold a farm. But I don’t know if he ran very far, because right now they are spreading en masse, because they are being brought back with all kinds of plants or compost land,” said G. Skujienė.
The scientist advised residents to first destroy small and barely visible slugs that have not yet managed to reproduce, because the large ones are already multiplied and are annual, it will still die.
“If there is a beginning and there are no neighbors around who have them and distribute them, then it is possible to get along. If they have spread en masse, then it is already very difficult.
In Lithuania, the nematode is already sold online. These are micro worms that parasitize slugs. After diluting those microscopic worms with water, it should be used to irrigate areas where most slugs are found. It enters slugs and multiplies in them, when it dies it moves to another slug, “said G. Skujienė.
The researcher also gave an example from Norway on how they store strawberries. They plow the land, make sure there are no slug eggs, make enclosures, and then plant the strawberries. And he constantly collects slugs in the enclosures.
According to the interlocutor, they tested chemical means in Lithuania, but they did not give the results they would like and slugs do not always die.
These slugs are eaten by hedgehogs, moles, frogs, and ducks.
The researcher said that these slugs are eaten by hedgehogs, frogs, moles, or ducks. And it is not correct to destroy slugs with chemicals, because in large quantities, the digestion of other animals can be disturbed and they may even die.
“Only a comprehensive agreement and destruction by all possible means. That is why it turns out that millions of people must be caught and watched.
The worst case scenario is when people are upset, others regret it, or somehow. I know of such cases in Klaipeda when they were collected and thrown into a garbage container. Or pick up slugs and carry them behind a garden fence. Whoever does this is the largest distributor, and once it is widespread in nature, it is no longer possible to eradicate it.
Then it must be destroyed by the municipality or another owner, but not 100 percent. effective substances They are wet in Lithuania and are spreading, ”said G. Skujienė.
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