New Zealand Flatworm

There have been various reports of problems with children swallowing them @Tidemark and having to go to A&E. I heard items about it years ago.

Dreadful things. How this stuff is allowed to be sold is beyond me - the trouble is, even if they weren't available to buy 'over the counter' they'd still be available online.

 

I wonder if they have the same effect as those water storage crystals that you get for containers.

 

They are essentially the exact same thing.

 

I'm very relieved for you, what a fright you must have had

though if it's your reason for joining ??????
Then a big welcome
You have joined a lovely, friendly and helpful forum . Hope you will stay.

 

Thank you, certainly will be staying.

Reading up on slug controls now!

 

Best and most ecologically friendly slug destroyers are:

Thrushes, starlings and blackbirds, chickens and ducks, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, shrews, slow worms, beetles, toads and frogs.

 

I don't know about ducks but the chickens we had didn't touch he slugs,
Wish they would have, it would have been better than the size 12 boot.

 

Derbyshire ducks love ‘em. I sometimes take them in a little plastic bag down to the river and scatter them around for the local ducks. Better than breadcrumbs!