When that happens, many trees like walnuts, oaks and pines, rely exclusively on so-called "scatter hoarders", such as birds, to move their seeds to new localities.
Slugs can make or break a season at this time of year. Regularly checking known hiding spots and relocating them to the other side of a stream at the back of my plot is an effective means of control.
A Serbian judge has ruled that the former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic is fit enough to be transferred to the war crimes tribunal at the Hague.
Some American Indian tribes have also established water rights through the courts based on their traditional diversion and use of certain waters prior to the United States' acquisition of sovereignty.