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We need to talk about slugs
Ask 10 people what hedgehogs eat, and 8 out of 10 will say slugs and snails.
Right?
But it’s so wrong. A hedgehog’s natural diet consists mostly of caterpillars and beetles. Aside from the odd experimental tasting by juveniles, hedgehogs avoid slugs and snails - which is just as well or the species would have died out decades ago. Slugs and snails are the intermediate hosts of lungworm; a parasite that will rapidly kill a hedgehog if not treated.
But if there is no other food available and a hedgehog is desperate and starving, eating anything will ease the pain of starvation - and slugs are always around in abundance.
It's a desperate, short term solution, because instead of dying of starvation they will die of parasite invasion.
An animal doesn’t even have to eat the slug or snail to get lungworm, just consuming something that has been moved over and covered in slime is enough - sheep get lungworm from eating grass which has been in the path of a slug.
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