snails and slugs
On 07/07/10 11:44 PM, sometime in the recent past songbird posted this:
Cal Who wrote: We have snails and slugs in the garden. Has anyone found a good way to get rid of them? it's a good use for stale beer in shallow saucer trap. supposedly they find it and drown themselves. i have yet to try it because we have many of the following: brown snakes (mid Michigan, USA) they eat them (along with other things). very fun creatures with a lot of character and spunk. they will stand their ground and strike more than you would think for a snake that doesn't get very large. non-poisonous. or hand pick them in the early morning (if you are an early riser type person) or at night. i think a red flashlight is useful for this, but i have not tested. All good suggestions, but the red flashlight probably isn't necessary (I suspect you mean 'red' so as not to scare the slugs off) since they don't move very fast. Now 'night crawlers' are a different story & red light would help ;-) songbird (hoping the martians don't come for me with stale beer or the red flashlight... -- Wilson 44.69, -67.3 |
snails and slugs
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" Cal Who" wrote: "Wilson" wrote in message ... On 07/07/10 11:44 PM, sometime in the recent past songbird posted this: Cal Who wrote: We have snails and slugs in the garden. Has anyone found a good way to get rid of them? it's a good use for stale beer in shallow saucer trap. supposedly they find it and drown themselves. i have yet to try it because we have many of the following: brown snakes (mid Michigan, USA) they eat them (along with other things). very fun creatures with a lot of character and spunk. they will stand their ground and strike more than you would think for a snake that doesn't get very large. non-poisonous. or hand pick them in the early morning (if you are an early riser type person) or at night. i think a red flashlight is useful for this, but i have not tested. All good suggestions, but the red flashlight probably isn't necessary (I suspect you mean 'red' so as not to scare the slugs off) since they don't move very fast. Now 'night crawlers' are a different story & red light would help ;-) songbird (hoping the martians don't come for me with stale beer or the red flashlight... -- Wilson 44.69, -67.3 Guess we have too much not under our control because we have not been successful. I'm going to look for Iron Phosphate Thanks http://www.sciencelab.com/search.php...nSearch=+Searc h+ 500 g for about $60. but you only need 1% on your bait. Or just buy Sluggo etc. Took almost a year to get it. Billy told me about ScienceLab.com -- Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden What use one more wake up call? |
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