IS GLOUCESTERSHIRE the unluckiest place in the world? A BBC news report suggests that on top of extensive flooding earlier this year, this part of England has been visited with another grievous natural disaster. The article, at www.tinyurl.com/228rhu, tells how the UK’s slug population has skyrocketed thanks to the unusually wet summer. “Some areas have been particularly badly hit,” it says. “In parts of Gloucestershire there are 100 slugs per square foot.”
Tim Newberry has done some calculations and they don’t look at all nice. If slugs are about 3 inches long and about half an inch…
