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Will 2026 be another slugageddon?

By Christopher Terrell Nield, Lecturer, Chemistry and Forensic Science, Nottingham Trent University

British gardeners and farmers may remember 2024 with a shudder – it was widely referred to as “the year of the slug”. Vast numbers of slimy slitherers chomped their way through raspberries, laid waste to lettuce and toppled tomato plants.

Directly sown crops were demolished, early carrots did not germinate and main crop potatoes were damaged.

Will we see a repeat of the slugageddon in…

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