I've been fighting a losing battle with the slugs in my garden so this piece on the BBC website caught my eye.
It quotes Bayer's Bill Lankford as saying that if it continues to be wet and warm - as long-range forecasts suggest - the current infestation could develop into a plague. This is a real worry for growers.
And the figures he quotes are incredible. An average of 61 slugs have been found per square metre of land in counts done by Bayer researchers.
This is an increase of more than 50% on previous years and the total slug population would be nearly 15 billion if this is replicated across the UK.