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Published online 27 June 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020624-8
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Coffee breaks slugs
Caffeine kills slugs and snails.
Humans have a new weapon in the eternal battle against slugs and snails - the double espresso.
Slugs and snails hate caffeine, researchers have discovered.
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