HaaRoy wrote in message
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Its surprising that the British genius for invention has failed to
come up with a really good way to keep them at bay from our favourite
plants.
Whats needed is a moluscicide to get rid of them out of ones garden,
as there is a fair few plants that you just cannot raise from small
size as they just gobble up the entire plant till it dies.
and even bigger sizes are at risk..
pellets are of limited use .
what substances do they really hate , say like salt etc.??
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In early spring they like dandelions, as slugs eggs are commonly deposited
at the base of the roots, seems that's where mom left them last fall; same
goes for potatoes left in over winter and other plants like this.

Baby slugs are activated by the spring rains running down the roots. They
then migrate to the top and start chomping on the newer parts of the plant.
At this point they are very petite indeed.

They have incredible olfactory systems and soon become attracted to other,
more attractive stuff *upwind.*

Lots of things attract slugs. They love melon and cantaloupe shell, a piece
left in the middle of your lawn will contain more than one in early morning.

Get yourself a miner's flashlight to wear on your head. Get another good
flashlight and a shaker of salt with large holes and a flat stick, like a
ruler. Go out after sunset and look for them on all your stuff. Dab some
salt on them (ukk, eh!) and leave them in place.
Rain and watering will wash what's left of them away, or they dry up to
nothing in a day or two of hot sun. The small amount of salt is not
detrimental to plants in my experience.

Slugs can be quite a problem. It took me five years to cut them down to
manageable on a residential property in Vancouver Canada.

You have to stay on it. They migrate from other properties and will cross
streets. They spend daytime under rocks, among rocks, down the side of
fence-posts, under boards and low lying large-leaf greenery, stuff like
that.
They like moist and cool.

Sometimes at night you may encounter a pair of them making the egg mass,
curled around it, which is jell-like, about the size of the average marble,
opaque white.

As far as I am concerned, they always travel in pairs at minimum, never
alone. Every time I found one, there was always another within a metre or
so.

Remember, they are guided by their *noses.*

Some ducks and geese eat them.
-r-