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" A\u00A0new study\u00A0by Queen Mary University of London and the University of Exeter has found that you need to move snails a distance of more than 20 metres to prevent them from navigating their way back into your garden. These slimy arch-enemies of the gardener are currently out in force, happily munching their way through the borders and enjoying the warm, damp conditions created by the recent combination of heavy rain and higher temperatures. Every gardener has their own way of dealing with these unwanted visitors, with methods ranging from drowning them in beer traps to randomly throwing them over the fence. This last option will not only make you unpopular with your neighbours, however, but also means there&amp;#039;s a good chance those same snails will be back to snack on your prize plants. Instead of resorting to chemicals, kindly gardeners looking for a more humane way to protect plants should simply round up the offenders and transport them to a patch of nearby wasteland. To find out more about slugs and snails, read Ruth Brooks&amp;#039;\u00A0funny, charming investigation into the hidden life of these fascinating, much-maligned molluscs \u2013\u00A0A Slow Passion: Snails, My Garden and Me\u00A0(Bloomsbury). Her research won her the title of the UK&amp;#039;s top amateur scientist. To order a copy for the special price of \u00A310 including p&amp;amp;amp;p, visit\u00A0Bloomsbury, quoting code CLSLOW50, until 31 July 2014. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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