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Old 05-08-2009, 03:45 AM posted to alt.home.lawn.garden
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Default What eats the leaves of castor bean plants?

On Aug 2, 10:27*am, willshak wrote:
on 8/1/2009 7:07 PM (ET) Plant Guy wrote the following:

Will earwig "destroyer" kill slugs or snails?


The best solution for slugs is a saucer full of beer. They are attracted
to the beer and then drown in it.

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i never had any luck with the beer method. i guess the slugs up here
are teetotalers. i'm trying the iron phosphate stuff now. this summer
being like a slug horror movie in the northeast.