Monday's report quoted one local resident, Abdula Tashibekov, as saying: "They eat an awful lot ... or simply the Spanish slug. It can also be reddish-brown or yellow. It is a hermaphrodite ...

most slugs will eat another dead slug if they find one. One home remedy that has yet to be tested is beer. Some have advocated putting out a saucer of beer to tempt Spanish slugs to an early end.

Spanish slugs eat young shoots, tubers, and plant leaves, which leads to their gradual dying off. They are omnivorous ...

They eat young shoots, bulbs, and leaves, leading to gradual plant decay. As omnivorous mollusks, they can lay up to 400 eggs ...