Go to Content [1] Go to Menu [2] Top of page [3] Home Slug Solutions Slug Facts Garden Guides Slug Chat 28 February 2018 Home › Slug Facts Site Map While creating this website I discovered many fascinating – and some truly bizarre – facts about the humble slug. It really is a remarkable little creature. I know I’ve already mentioned many of them throughout the pages of ‘Slug Off’, but I’m sure you’ll love reading them all here together in one place. For instance... Only 5% of the slug population is above ground at any one time. The other 95% is underground digesting your seedlings, laying eggs, and feeding on roots and seed sprouts. A slug’s blood is green. Most British slugs eat rotting vegetation, but a few are carnivorous. Slugs do play an important role in ecology by eating decomposing vegetation. A slug lays 20-100 eggs several times a year. Slug eggs can lay dormant in the soil fo...