Gray Garden Slug - Deroceras reticultatum

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Learn what you can do to control these voracious garden plant-munchers using environmentally sound methods. Live garden slugs and slug eggs photographed at northern Illinois.

All slugs lay eggs. Each species requires a different length of time for the development of its eggs and the maturing of its young. The number of eggs laid at one time by one slug may be up to 100, but average 20 to 30. Young adult slugs lay fewer eggs than older ones, so it's important to pick off the adults as they age.

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