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 | | Slugs are major pests of both commercially-grown chrysanthemums and lettuces, but when given the choice they always choose the lettuces. |
 | | It is at this time, when slugs are at their most numerous, that the potatoes are most attractive to them because the surface haulms, on which slugs feed, will have died off. |
 | | This means, of course, that while slug numbers can build up again rapidly after use of a molluscicide based on methiocarb, because the predators have been removed, after applying the nematodes the predators will remain to prevent slugs re-invading, and to mop up slugs hatching from eggs in the soil. |
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