Snapdragons are not only colourful and hardy, but they also contain chemicals that slugs find toxic, though they are harmless ...

Gardeners up and down the UK are being urged to take action before September starts and the weather turns cooler again.

The slime patrol always returns. Poison slug baits are effective and work well. Metaldehyde is the key ingredient that invites slugs and snails to eat it. They die quickly.

Poisonous animals like some nudibranchs –aka sea slugs–and poisonous dart frogs have evolved very vivid hues. A panel of dorsal shots of all 45 species of sea slugs that we examined in the study.