Slug Nematodes 12million (Treats 40sq.m)

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However, in a long dry spell, slugs can encase themselves in a papery cocoon-like structure and attach themselves to a wall or a tree and wait it out. Please note - these Biological Pest Control products will only be delivered shortly before or during the stated application periods. Each application of Nemaslug controls slugs for 6 weeks, so for a slug free garden, re-apply each 6 weeks – see our Planned Programmes of packs sent a 6 weekly intervals.

So whilst this process is going on somebody has to check which stage the nematodes are at in their life cycle. The commercial product that is used by gardeners was a teamwork effort of bacteriologists, nematologists, entomologists, malacologists, biochemists, molecular biologists and industry with the aim to integrate their efforts to understand and exploit the peculiar attributes of symbioses.

They lay a batch of about 80 spherical pearly-white eggs into crevices in the topsoil or sheltered under stones. As well as attacking the leafy parts of plants, slugs will also feast on your fruit and vegetable crop. The product is less effective on cloggy clay soil, which has not been worked and/or has become waterlogged. Nematodes are capable of surviving the odd frost, so don’t worry if the temperature falls after you have applied Nemaslug. The idea was that the slugs would taste/smell their dead ‘relatives’ and this would deter them from eating your plants!

Like life and nature, of course it is more complicated than simply pouring nematode worms onto the soil to kill slugs.

The packs contain living organisms, and should be kept refrigerated on arrival, and used before the expiry date, approximately 3 to 4 weeks from date of despatch.

If you have some prize plants then use Slug Rings once you have applied nematodes for extra protection. Nemaslug® contains millions of microscopic beneficial nematodes (Phasmarhabditis Californica) that occur naturally in your soil.

The slug nematodes were used as recommended and within a week we could find only isolated individuals around the garden.