By Katy Lewis
BBC News, Hertfordshire
A project to provide slugs and snails an “image remodeling” desires garden enthusiasts to reassess the function of the much-maligned animals.
The Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust and Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) wish to challenge unfavorable understandings.
Making Friends with Molluscs would “equip individuals with truths”, organisers stated, and demonstrate how they add to environments in a favorable method.
They are “nature’s clean-up team”, the trust stated.
Project organisers hope that by discovering to “value and co-exist” with snails and slugs, garden enthusiasts can embrace a more eco-friendly technique.
Just a little portion of about 150 types of molluscs in the UK posture issues for garden enthusiasts, with the bulk contributing favorably to the community, the trust stated.
They feed upon decaying plants, fungis and dung – and assist recycle nitrogen, nutrients and minerals back into the soil.
Animals such as frogs, thrushes, and ground beetles, depend on them for food and th