Martin's comical garden slideshow
He wanted to film the wildlife that explored his Newport garden.
But what Martin Jones discovered was that his home in Church Aston was being attacked by slugs and snails.
Using his specialist wildlife camera, Mr Jones decided to test out whether any of the traditional tricks for keeping the pests off his plants would actually work - with hilarious consequences.
Mr Jones has now made a series of videos about the animal exploits in his garden.
The 54-year-old said: "I first noticed them a couple of years ago .
"I had a wildlife camera and decided to have a little bit of fun with it.
"Initially I was setting up the camera outside to film hedgehogs, but all I was getting was snails and slugs.
"This year there have been more out again.
"I thought it might be useful to test out some of the deterrents and see if they work, but they actually don't."
Using timelapse techniques, Mr Jones sped-up the footage he filmed of the slugs and snails in his garden and tried different bait to see if any of the rumoured techniques to stop them would actually work, learning that most were nonsense.
He said: "They do cause damage in my garden, my wife is always complaining that they have been chewing up her hostas.
"If I wasn't doing something about them, she would be killing them so I thought I would give them more of a sporting chance.
"And they seem to like beer. If I'm not doing anything, they still gather in the same place waiting for some more beer.
"They must get something out of it I suppose."
Mr Jones made his video Slug City for the Newport Photography Club's AV Competition.
Experts from the Shropshire Wildlife Trust say that the methods used by Mr Jones in his video are a relatively benign way of dealing with the pests.
John Hughes, from the Shropshire Wildlife Trust, said: "I stopped controlling the slugs and snails in my garden 20 years ago and noticed not a jot of difference.
"If you put in strong plants and make sure your soil is in good heart they will out-grow any slug damage
"We tend to kill the wrong type of slugs – the ones in the videos are mostly arion ater, which will eat your plants, but are nowhere near as devastating as the little grey jobs that live in the soil and you seldom see.
"If you must control slugs, things like beer traps are a relatively benign way of doing so.
"Slug pellets are a really major problem in our drinking water supply and there is no excuse for using them."
