14:09, Tue, Apr 8, 2025 Updated: 16:57, Thu, Apr 10, 2025 Gardeners have been issued a warning by garden and ecology experts over using slug pellets in their garden this year - because they may be ...

One pesky pesticide lurking in your shed could land you a fine, households have been warned.

As the spring and summer months approach, gardeners are being advised against using slug pellets in their gardens due to the harm they can cause to various forms of wildlife beyond just slugs and ...

Gardeners who have slug pellets in their shed have been issued a legal warning about using them after a law change. They have long been used by gardeners as a means of pest control in the eternal war ...

Gardeners are being urged not to use slug pellets in their gardens this spring or summer due to the damage they can cause to all sorts of wildlife beyond slugs and snails. Slugs are a headache for ...

Some creations, it seems, are created enemies. Tom and Jerry. Montagues and Capulets. Liz Truss and the Prime Minister position. And if you’ve ever so much as grown some watercress from a cotton ball, ...

Gardeners have been banned from putting out slug pellets to protect their plants and vegetables from the gastropod. This is because slug pellets contain metaldehyde, an organic compound that is toxic ...

A WATER firm has appealed to farmers near two North Yorkshire rivers to carefully manage the use of a slug control pesticide which can be toxic to animals that ingest it. Yorkshire Water has labelled ...

WILDLIFE campaigner Angela Squires is campaigning for people to stop putting down poisonous slug pellets after three hedgehogs died last week. Angela, who founded Poole’s Crash hedgehog hospital, said ...

A garden centre has been criticised for promoting soon-to-be-banned slug pellets. Everton Nurseries near Lymington, Hampshire displayed a sign urging customers to "please stock up" on metaldehyde ...