Can anyone tell me how to go about catching snails WITHOUT poisoning
them or drowning them? I have heard that snails love beer (can you
blame them?), but how would you set up a snail trap where they are
kept alive, but can't get out?
I intend to cook them, after they have "cleaned themselves" out. Bran
or something?
Anyway, a good snail trap that doesn't poison or drown them? I hear
that they like dark damp areas.

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Can anyone tell me how to go about catching snails WITHOUT poisoning
them or drowning them? I have heard that snails love beer (can you
blame them?), but how would you set up a snail trap where they are
kept alive, but can't get out?
I intend to cook them, after they have "cleaned themselves" out. Bran
or something?
Anyway, a good snail trap that doesn't poison or drown them? I hear
that they like dark damp areas.

A milk jug cut in half with tomatoes in it might work. Slugs like them. I
don't see why a snail wouldn't like them. Remember though, that some snails
are poisonous, so make sure you know what you are eating. Yuk.

wrote in message ...
Can anyone tell me how to go about catching snails WITHOUT poisoning
them or drowning them? I have heard that snails love beer (can you
blame them?), but how would you set up a snail trap where they are
kept alive, but can't get out?
I intend to cook them, after they have "cleaned themselves" out. Bran
or something?
Anyway, a good snail trap that doesn't poison or drown them? I hear
that they like dark damp areas.

Edible snails are few and far between and only occur in a small number
of protected sites in the South. Normal garden snails are AFAIK, not
edible, even after being fed on bran.

Mike
www.british-naturism.org.uk

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Berridge" wrote:

wrote in message ...
Can anyone tell me how to go about catching snails WITHOUT poisoning
them or drowning them? I have heard that snails love beer (can you
blame them?), but how would you set up a snail trap where they are
kept alive, but can't get out?
I intend to cook them, after they have "cleaned themselves" out. Bran
or something?
Anyway, a good snail trap that doesn't poison or drown them? I hear
that they like dark damp areas.

Edible snails are few and far between and only occur in a small number
of protected sites in the South. Normal garden snails are AFAIK, not
edible, even after being fed on bran.

Mike
www.british-naturism.org.uk


The garden snails found here in the Pacific Northwest of the USA are
introduced European snails & perfectly edible, not that hardly anyone
bothers to eat them, indeed the idea of eating snails seems to be regarded
by the majority of Americans as a very peculiar habit of French people, &
generally to be avoided.

But so too, regular ol' tough-hided English garden slugs (introduced
throughout N.A.), and big ol' nightcrawler earthworms, are likewise
perfectly edible if one knows how to prepare them correctly, & is neither
squeemish nor a vegetarian. See Frank R. Howard's cookbook, BEST
WASHINGTON SLUG RECIPES, & see:
http://bertc.com/slug_fritters.htm

Or for EARTHWORM YUMMIES see:
http://bertc.com/natural.htm
http://www.naturewatch.ca/english/wo...l/recipes.html

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

in article ,
at wrote on 7/27/03 11:25 PM:

Can anyone tell me how to go about catching snails WITHOUT poisoning
them or drowning them? I have heard that snails love beer (can you
blame them?), but how would you set up a snail trap where they are
kept alive, but can't get out?
I intend to cook them, after they have "cleaned themselves" out. Bran
or something?
Anyway, a good snail trap that doesn't poison or drown them? I hear
that they like dark damp areas.

I like stepping on them.

Bill

"Repeating Decimal" wrote in message
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in article ,
at wrote on 7/27/03 11:25 PM:

Can anyone tell me how to go about catching snails WITHOUT poisoning
them or drowning them? I have heard that snails love beer (can you
blame them?), but how would you set up a snail trap where they are
kept alive, but can't get out?
I intend to cook them, after they have "cleaned themselves" out. Bran
or something?
Anyway, a good snail trap that doesn't poison or drown them? I hear
that they like dark damp areas.

I like stepping on them.

Bill

How about a snail cannon? Similar to a potato cannon, smaller caliber
barrel. One could shoot them into a neighbors yard. Or at the neighbor. In
any case, snails are easy to catch. They don't move quickly.

Chas Hurst

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"Repeating Decimal" wrote in message
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in article ,
at wrote on 7/27/03 11:25
PM:

Can anyone tell me how to go about catching snails WITHOUT poisoning
them or drowning them? I have heard that snails love beer (can you
blame them?), but how would you set up a snail trap where they are
kept alive, but can't get out?
I intend to cook them, after they have "cleaned themselves" out. Bran
or something?
Anyway, a good snail trap that doesn't poison or drown them? I hear
that they like dark damp areas.

I like stepping on them.

Bill

How about a snail cannon? Similar to a potato cannon, smaller caliber
barrel. One could shoot them into a neighbors yard. Or at the neighbor. In
any case, snails are easy to catch. They don't move quickly.

Chas Hurst


Naw. It wouldn't be the same now that they've banned cherry bombs.

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in article ,
at wrote on 7/27/03 11:25 PM:

Can anyone tell me how to go about catching snails WITHOUT poisoning
them or drowning them? I have heard that snails love beer (can you
blame them?), but how would you set up a snail trap where they are
kept alive, but can't get out?
I intend to cook them, after they have "cleaned themselves" out. Bran
or something?
Anyway, a good snail trap that doesn't poison or drown them? I hear
that they like dark damp areas.

I like stepping on them.

Bill

How about a snail cannon? Similar to a potato cannon, smaller caliber
barrel. One could shoot them into a neighbors yard. Or at the neighbor. In
any case, snails are easy to catch.

They don't move quickly.

Unless they've met your cannon of course.

Tim Worstall

Chas Hurst

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Can anyone tell me how to go about catching snails WITHOUT poisoning
them or drowning them? I have heard that snails love beer (can you
blame them?), but how would you set up a snail trap where they are
kept alive, but can't get out?
I intend to cook them, after they have "cleaned themselves" out. Bran
or something?
Anyway, a good snail trap that doesn't poison or drown them? I hear
that they like dark damp areas.

I thought that *slugs* love beer, not snails. For snails, if I recall
correctly, leave orange peels overnight and pick them off in the morning.

-- Salty

P.S. Yuck

The fasted snail I have ever seen was not able to outrun me. Hide perhaps.
:=)

Bill

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General purpose bug trap:

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/ )

Do step 2) first, for ease of cutting.

Serving suggestions:
Use plenty of garlic, and
drink 2 bottles of Arogant ******* Ale first.

--Doug

"Doug Bashford" wrote in message
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General purpose bug trap:

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/ )

Do step 2) first, for ease of cutting.

Serving suggestions:
Use plenty of garlic, and
drink 2 bottles of Arogant ******* Ale first.

--Doug


Here's a better way to catch snails. Get a really big hook and a strong
line. Attach the hook to a Frenchman, throw him in the backyard, and wait.
:-)

Doug Bashford wrote:

General purpose bug trap:

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/ )

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?

--
Cheers,
Bev
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
If he had any brains, he'd take them out and play with them.

In uk.rec.gardening Repeating Decimal wrote:

: I like stepping on them.

Snails give a satisfying crunch. Slugs - on the other hand...
--
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|im |yler http://timtyler.org/

In
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 19:23:53 -0700, The Real Bev
wrote about:
Catching Snails?


- Doug Bashford wrote:
-
- General purpose bug trap:
-
- 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/ )
-
- 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...
--Doug