Doug Bashford wrote:
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 19:23:53 -0700, The Real Bev
wrote about:
Catching Snails?
- Doug Bashford wrote:
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- General purpose bug trap:
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- 1) Cut the 1/3 top off a 2-liter plastic soda bottle.
- 2) Cut off the top of that, just big enough to allow snails thru.
- Invert modified top and connect it to bottom of jug
- for a one-way funnel trap. Seal with masking tape, ...whatever.
- 3)Bury in ground to keep cool and dark, with open funnel
- near ground surface.
-
- 4) Bait with a little stale beer, the yeast odor will
- attract snails & slugs from 10+ feet away. Or use wet
- yeast. (Use wimpy American yellow beer. Do not use stuff
- like Arogant ******* Ale, it's too hoppy, and too potent.
- http://www.arrogant*******.com/ )
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- Do step 2) first, for ease of cutting.
-
- Serving suggestions:
- Use plenty of garlic, and
- drink 2 bottles of Arogant ******* Ale first.
-
- Will the recycler take the bottle if it's full of snails?
Naw, but you have "reused" which is normally higher up
the scale than recycling.
You can test this via economics. How much would
a new bug trap cost?...plus it would not accept big snails.
What are the 3 Rs again?
Recycle, reuse, and...
Repair?
Back in the old days a nifty ashtray could be constructed with a metal
funnel, the spring from a real metal ashtray, and a glass bottle. Insert
spring in funnel, insert funnel in bottle. When you were done with your
cigarette, you just dropped it into the bottle, where it would quickly
self-extinguish. When the bottle was full, you could return it to the
store where you bought it and get a nickel (if the store didn't notice the
butts).
Today's factoid: did you know that, at least in California, the common
garden snails are the descendents of fancy imported French snails who
quickly wiped out the indigenous snail population? Or so I've heard.
Along those lines, we reciprocated by sending France a mess of winegrape
cuttings when their own vineyards were wiped out due to some weird grape
disease.
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Cheers,
Bev
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