Ten slug facts
Here are some things you may not have known about slugs.
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Slug Appreciation!
In the spring of 2022 the Royal Horticultural Society decided that slugs are no longer to be classed as garden pests. This was very welcome news.
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Did You Know….
The reserve’s great pond snails (Lymnaea stagnalis) can crawl on the under side of the water surface, eating algae as they go and breathing oxygen from the air.
Header Image: Great pond snail by Peter Pfeiffer (CC BY-SA 4.0) commons.wikimedia.org
Swan mussels
The extraordinary life cycle of a swan mussel
For decades, there have been swan mussels in the pool below Village Green Pond’s weir. Last years’s drought was hard on the colony but it seems to have survived.
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The Slug Appreciation Society
Slugs are no longer to be classed as garden pests by the Royal Horticultural Society.
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Message and a picture from Ian Bushell.
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Another new species
by Ian Bushell
During the working party tasks last Wednesday, when the Friends were trying to clear the stream of obstructions – mostly logs and other bits of timber thrown into the stream probably by children playing – something caught my eye.
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Life cycle of a swan mussel
The life cycle of a swan mussel (Anodonta cygnea) is extraordinary, a real illustration of the complexity of the park’s freshwater ecosystem, and the reason for the picture of a little shoal of three -spined sticklebacks . . .
Southwick Country Park Nature Reserve 