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Oh really, that's interesting. I thought dedicatedly killing/binning them of an evening made a noticeable difference but it's just too much effort to maintain.
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Ime what you want to do is dedicate a week to it. Go out every evening before bed with a head torch and a container.
Collect them all up and dispose of however you wish. I think the green waste bin is the most humane. And chopping all of them up is a bit messy and hard with the little ones.
By the end of the week you'll notice there are few left. After that you can just do an evening a week with sharp
hugo7
I went through a phase last year of collecting as many as I could find each morning and lobbing them straight into the hotbin.
I've gone for the more Zen approach this year of not removing any and don't think the garden is any the worse for it.