A horror for every gardener: nudibranchs.
Our colleague Cornelia Schramm (snail alarm in the vegetable patch; first page in Bavaria today) asked a mollusc expert what we can do about this garden pest.
Even on my field on the outskirts of Munich these voracious and slimy critters have already struck and nibbled on salads like cabbage.
We do not want to and are not allowed to use poison like slug pellets there.
Drowning in a beer trap or a knife massacre are out of the question for ethical reasons.
Therefore, I resort to a comparatively mild hazard defense.
I collect the snails in a bucket and ban them 50 meters into the forest.
Christian Vordemann
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