Trish Brown wrote:

Blue-tongue lizards and ducks! The expression on the face of a bluey as he
munches up a big fat snail is something that has to be beheld!
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Trish {|:-}
Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Stomper wrote:

Holy Mackeral... I hope I dont come "back" as a blue tongue lizard... ugh!
Thats put me back on my diet!!!

Haven't you ever eaten snails? They're *lovely* with garlic butter and parsley
(er - on the plate, not in the garden...) Bad for the diet, but *so* tasty!

Burp!

I've put snail bait out in the garden with an icecream container over the top of
it. You cut holes in the i/c to make little 'doors' for the snails to enter.
They eat the bait and supposedly pass away 'indoors' as it were. This helps to
stop pets from eating the snail bait, but somehow I think the poisoned snails
would attract the native lizards for a feed and then be deadly to them! The
powdered bait is better from the pets' point of view because it's easier to
strew about in snail-sized doses than the pelletted form. It's still deadly to
lizards, though.

*Surely* there's some means to capture snails without using poisons? I mean,
they've put men on the moon, so you'd think they could manage snails by now.
Wouldn't you???

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Trish {|:-}
Newcastle, NSW, Australia

There is a snail bait made by Multicrop that is basically
chelated iron. It's not as fast working as metaldehyde but
it still seems to work well. It's longer lasting than than
normal baits but grows mould faster than the 'long life'
baits. Being chelated iron it is supposed to be non-toxic to
pets, birds, lizards, etc and any left overs become plant
food.
Andrew