Garden pests to thrive in cold conditions

By Ben Leach Published: 7:00AM GMT twenty-two February 2010

Garden pests such as snails are abounding as predators are struggling to tarry the cold Photo: EARTHWATCH

Many creatures such as snails and slugs are means to tarry the cold by anticipating easeful spots and superfluous asleep until the continue gets warmer.

Yet predators such as birds are struggling to find sufficient food and keep comfortable during the coldest winter in twenty years.

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"Things that run about in the earth can go in to hibernation and will be protected," pronounced Stewart Henchie of the Natural History Museum in London.

"Lots of these bugs have insurance that can ward off majority some-more than the temperatures that are being experienced this winter.

"These animals have developed by all sorts of nasty extremes both high and low temperatures.

"The slugs and snails and their eggs are all in the dirt and are ideally written to ward off low temperatures."

Andrew Halstead of the Royal Horticultural Society added: "It"s probably not the outcome that majority people expect.

"The greatest stroke is probably not so majority on the pests but on the birds that eat them. They can humour in a cold winter majority some-more than the pests.

"It"s usually the coldest winter in twenty years since it"s been so amiable in new years," he said.

"If you see behind over a longer timescale, there"s zero generally impassioned about this winter. Native pests have blending to majority harder winters than this one."