“…Other species of nonspecialised ground beetles have been examined in former studies as control agents or used as model predators of slugsi.e. Abax parallelepipedus (Symondson, 1989(Symondson, , 1994Asteraki, 1993;Symondson & Lidell, 1993a), Scaphinotus striatopunctatus (Altieri, 1982;Digweed, 1994), S. marginatus (Digweed, 1993), Pterostichus madidus (Asteraki, 1993;Ayre, 2001;Mair & Port, 2001, 2002, P. niger (Pakarinen, 1993b), P. adstrictus, P. pensylvanicus, P. protractus, P. surgens (Digweed, 1993), Nebria brevicollis (Ayre, 2001;Mair & Port, 2001, 2002, Harpalus rufipes, H. aeneus (Ayre, 2001). However, these species either do not occur in the Czech Republic or were not available in as high numbers as P. melanarius.…”