Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
Last week I set out a beer trap for the slugs which have been munching
down my sorrel. I was not able to trap any slugs into the beer traps, however I caught numerous crickets each night in my beer filled yogurt container. Frustrated, I turned to more inhumane means of ridding myself of slugs. At the sight of two particularly large slugs on the side of our house, I ran for the salt (not sure why I felt the need to run, I don't think the slugs were going to run off on me). It was cruel, but I took pleasure in tossing the salt onto the invasive and destructive creatures. Two nights later, all my parsley has been eaten down to the stems. My money is on the slug community. I think they are exacting revenge. Heidi |
Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
Heidi wrote in news:IC31b.6867$r15.381341
@twister.southeast.rr.com: Last week I set out a beer trap for the slugs which have been munching down my sorrel. I was not able to trap any slugs into the beer traps, however I caught numerous crickets each night in my beer filled yogurt I don't know if this is what you did, but the shallower and closer to the ground, the better. If you used a whole container, maybe the slugs couldn't smell the beer or decided it wasn't worth the effort. container. Frustrated, I turned to more inhumane means of ridding myself of slugs. At the sight of two particularly large slugs on the side of our house, I ran for the salt (not sure why I felt the need to run, I don't think the slugs were going to run off on me). It was LMAO!!!! -- Salty |
Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
I've smashed about 15 slugs in my yard this year and salted 2. They've
chomped through too many plants this year to be shown any mercy. Baby slugs keep getting caught in the fur on my dog's legs. It's really gross to find them in the middle of the living room carpet. I am, however, going to switch to beer in plastic bowls buried so that the top of the bowl is at ground level. I'm not sure that drowning is more humane than salting, but at least it's not pesticide. |
Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:16:24 GMT, Heidi
wrote: run, I don't think the slugs were going to run off on me). It was cruel, but I took pleasure in tossing the salt onto the invasive and destructive creatures. Two nights later, all my parsley has been eaten down to the stems. My money is on the slug community. I think they are exacting revenge. Romans used to poison the wells of places from which they were retreating. It was the ultimate act of spite; if they could not live there then noone would. They would also salt the lands, so no other living thing could grow there. Besides killing the ground which is salted, the salt is almost always ineffective toward slugs because they shed the outer coat, leaving the salt behind and move on to your plants twice as hungry because they lost so much water. If you'd like to kill the slugs without killing the ground around them, try picking them up and dropping them in a can of alcohol, vinegar or ammonia. Much less messy than trying to squash them, and not as dangerous to the soil. Garden store items such as slug-go and escar-go are also very effective without ruining the environment. Dan |
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Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
"dstvns" wrote in message ... If you'd like to kill the slugs without killing the ground around them, try picking them up and dropping them in a can of alcohol, vinegar or ammonia. Much less messy than trying to squash them, and not as dangerous to the soil. Garden store items such as slug-go and escar-go are also very effective without ruining the environment. I just pick up a twig and impale them to the ground. Bob |
Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
Salt poured on a slug point-black will work. Salt poured around plants
won't. However, copper borders will. something in their slime reacts with the copper and gives them a shock they don't like. |
Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
Tyra Trevellyn wrote: From: (dstvns) Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2003 1:42 PM Message-id: who wrote: snip ...the salt is almost always ineffective toward slugs because they shed the outer coat, leaving the salt behind and move on to your plants twice as hungry because they lost so much water. Is this actually true? I see little dried-up crispy things left after I go on a slug-salting foray (which I haven't done in years). Those nasty critters must have secret slug rehydration teams that come around when we're not looking..... Best, Tyra nNJ usa z7a I wonder about this as well. After salting, all that was left on the siding were 2 streamy blobs, which did not retain the shape of a slug. It looked like Big Foot hocked a couple of giant lugies and spit them on our house! Why is salt bad for the yard? I have heard of people spreading epsom salt on their yard. Also, I have used elemental sulfur to reduce the pH in our yard (we seem to have the only alkaline yard in the area...before the sulfur all my azaleas died...then I had the soil tested). Heidi Raleigh, NC |
Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
In article 43a1b.22219$5H4.404983
@twister.southeast.rr.com, says... :) Why is salt bad for the yard? I have heard of people spreading epsom :) salt on their yard. :) Now you have some of the nicest beaches a few hours East of you that can give you that answer.... Sea and table salt are sodium chloride. Epsom salt is a magnesium sulfate.... I have a few cousins in Raleigh...yell a howdy out the window for me...Raleigh can't be that big. ;) -- http://home.comcast.net/~larflu/owl1.jpg Lar. (to e-mail, get rid of the BUGS!! |
Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
snip Is this actually true? I see little dried-up crispy things left after I go on a slug-salting foray (which I haven't done in years). Those nasty critters must have secret slug rehydration teams that come around when we're not looking..... Yeah, they're like little ghost busters. They come flying around in their Hydratormobile, get out and zap the salted fiends with their gatorade blasters hooked up to their backs until the victim's natural ectoplasm is restored to a like new sparkly sheen........ |
Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
Oh! You BIG meanies. Don't you know slugs have rights too? Now your all
doomed to hell.. or have bad kharma... or something. Jest joking! -- Jayel .. It was cruel, but I took pleasure in tossing the salt onto the invasive and destructive creatures. Two nights later, all my parsley has been eaten down to the stems. My money is on the slug community. I think they are exacting revenge. Heidi |
Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
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Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
From: "BLueCoBra"
Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2003 12:01 AM Message-id: 3f44418a_3@newsfeed snip Is this actually true? I see little dried-up crispy things left after I go on a slug-salting foray (which I haven't done in years). Those nasty critters must have secret slug rehydration teams that come around when we're not looking..... Yeah, they're like little ghost busters. They come flying around in their Hydratormobile, get out and zap the salted fiends with their gatorade blasters hooked up to their backs until the victim's natural ectoplasm is restored to a like new sparkly sheen........ Ick-ZACT-ly what I was picturing. Best, Tyra |
Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
"Frogleg" wrote in message ... On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 17:42:47 GMT, (dstvns) wrote: Romans used to ...salt the lands, so no other living thing could grow there. Besides killing the ground which is salted, the salt is almost always ineffective toward slugs because they shed the outer coat, leaving the salt behind and move on to your plants twice as hungry because they lost so much water. You have obviously never poured salt on a slug and watched him fizz to death. Obviously, since salt *is* bad for ground/plants, this isn't a wholesale solution. But salt *does* kill slugs. I believe it has something to do with instant and complete dehydration. If you'd like to kill the slugs without killing the ground around them, try picking them up and dropping them in a can of alcohol, vinegar or ammonia. *You* pick 'em up. I'll bait, drown, or step on 'em with sturdy wooden garden clogs. :-) This sounds like table salt is just about as evil a RoundUp!!! : ) |
Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
In article j6p1b.808499$3C2.18370989
@news3.calgary.shaw.ca, says... :) This sounds like table salt is just about as evil a RoundUp!!! :) :) A bit more toxic than roundup...but ya can't have the fries without it. :) -- http://home.comcast.net/~larflu/owl1.jpg Lar. (to e-mail, get rid of the BUGS!! |
Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:14:10 GMT, Frogleg wrote:
You have obviously never poured salt on a slug and watched him fizz to death. Obviously, since salt *is* bad for ground/plants, this isn't a wholesale solution. But salt *does* kill slugs. I believe it has something to do with instant and complete dehydration. I've seen them shed their orange skin and go back off into the garden if you don't use enough of it...you pour a tiny sprinkle or two and in a few minutes it goes on its merry way. You have to pour a good handful of salt on it and on the ground to finally kill it. Dan |
Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:11:27 GMT, Lar wrote:
A bit more toxic than roundup...but ya can't have the fries without it. :) Isn't this why California can't use well water and they're always fighting over more water from neighboring states? Their own well water table is heavily salted. Dan |
Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
Why is salt bad for the yard? I have heard of people spreading epsom
salt on their yard. Also, I have used elemental sulfur to reduce the pH in our yard (we seem to have the only alkaline yard in the area...before the sulfur all my azaleas died...then I had the soil tested). Heidi Raleigh, NC Heidi wrote: Last week I set out a beer trap for the slugs which have been munching down my sorrel. I was not able to trap any slugs into the beer traps, however I caught numerous crickets each night in my beer filled yogurt container. Frustrated, I turned to more inhumane means of ridding myself of slugs. At the sight of two particularly large slugs on the side of our house, I ran for the salt (not sure why I felt the need to run, I don't think the slugs were going to run off on me). It was cruel, but I took pleasure in tossing the salt onto the invasive and destructive creatures. Two nights later, all my parsley has been eaten down to the stems. My money is on the slug community. I think they are exacting revenge. Heidi |
Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 20:50:41 GMT, Heidi
wrote: Why is salt bad for the yard? I have heard of people spreading epsom salt on their yard. Also, I have used elemental sulfur to reduce the pH in our yard (we seem to have the only alkaline yard in the area...before the sulfur all my azaleas died...then I had the soil tested). Someone already posted the answer to this. NaCl (sodium chloride, or regular ol' salt) renders soil unsuitable for plants. Salt was historically used to poison the fields of an enemy population. Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate, quite a different animal. And why would you equate "elemental sulfer" with salt? |
Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 13:43:43 GMT, "Phrederik"
wrote: This sounds like table salt is just about as evil a RoundUp!!! Much more toxic. The effects linger and are very hard to overcome. Round-up just kills what it's sprayed on, and doesn't poison the soil. |
Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
Heidi wrote in
m: Why is salt bad for the yard? I have heard of people spreading epsom salt on their yard. Also, I have used elemental sulfur to reduce the pH in our yard (we seem to have the only alkaline yard in the area...before the sulfur all my azaleas died...then I had the soil tested). I think the technical answer is that sodium chloride, aka table salt changes the osmotic pressure in the plant and so prevents water (and therefore nutrients) from going to where they need to be. I've heard it compared to people who have high blood pressure and high salt diets. I suppose the extra chlorine can't be good either. But the above might be a lot of hooey, as I'm not a botanist or chemist. I don't know about epsom salts (magnesium sulfate), although I've jumped on the bandwagon and given some to my tomatoes. As for the sulphur, azaleas like acid soils and probably have problems absorbing nutrients if the pH is too high. -- Salty |
Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
"Frogleg" wrote in message ... On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 13:43:43 GMT, "Phrederik" wrote: This sounds like table salt is just about as evil a RoundUp!!! Much more toxic. The effects linger and are very hard to overcome. Round-up just kills what it's sprayed on, and doesn't poison the soil. But, does it kill slugs? Bob |
Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
Another option would be to visit your local garden center and get a bag or
container of diatamatious (I am 100% sure that is spelled wrong - but close) earth. It is a natural substance that you sprinkle around your plants - it kills the slugs and is actually good for the garden. Now -m you slug lovers might want to stop reading now because I'm going to explain how it does in the little munchetrs. The "earth" has naturally very sharp edges to igranular structure. The edges don't harm humans or larger animals (pets) but literally cuts the belly out of the slugs when they crawl over it. "Heidi" wrote in message m... Last week I set out a beer trap for the slugs which have been munching down my sorrel. I was not able to trap any slugs into the beer traps, however I caught numerous crickets each night in my beer filled yogurt container. Frustrated, I turned to more inhumane means of ridding myself of slugs. At the sight of two particularly large slugs on the side of our house, I ran for the salt (not sure why I felt the need to run, I don't think the slugs were going to run off on me). It was cruel, but I took pleasure in tossing the salt onto the invasive and destructive creatures. Two nights later, all my parsley has been eaten down to the stems. My money is on the slug community. I think they are exacting revenge. Heidi |
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Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
"DickLivy" wrote in message news:JCz1b.231666$uu5.44974@sccrnsc04...
Another option would be to visit your local garden center and get a bag or container of diatamatious (I am 100% sure that is spelled wrong - but close) earth. It is a natural substance that you sprinkle around your plants - it kills the slugs and is actually good for the garden. Now -m you slug lovers might want to stop reading now because I'm going to explain how it does in the little munchetrs. The "earth" has naturally very sharp edges to igranular structure. The edges don't harm humans or larger animals (pets) but literally cuts the belly out of the slugs when they crawl over it. From what I read, diatomaceous earth is good to kill insects, but it becomes ineffective when wet. Slugs' "foot" is basically "wet" with a mucuous covering. I myself normally pick them up with a plastic fork, put them in a transparent cup (like Starbucks cold drink) with water or even fertilizer solution, then cover it with another cup so the slugs could not crawl out. One or two days later I pour them back into the lawn when I am convinced they are "no more". I wonder if someone else in Pacific Northwest has tried this ... :) |
Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
Southern California does use ground water. I grew up on it. My
brother-in-law is president of a water company in Rialto that uses it. Arrowhead lake has natural springs from which the water is(or was?) bottled and sold. As Emelia stated there are many reasons for Southern California's water problems.... all of them tied to overpopulation. The water that comes from the Colorado river has the problem of having vast amounts of fertilizer dumped into it(not literally ... figuratively) and taste as such... Basically we have too many people on earth to sustain the way of life that Americans live. We are approximately 5% of the worlds population and we use ~25% of its resources. "MLEBLANCA" wrote in message ... In article , (dstvns) writes: A bit more toxic than roundup...but ya can't have the fries without it. :) Isn't this why California can't use well water and they're always fighting over more water from neighboring states? Their own well water table is heavily salted. Dan That's a pretty broad statement: California is a very big state. There's a whole lot of California other than the Southern portion, to which I imagine you are referring. Most of Northern California uses wells very "well". Just about everyone up here has a well. And even those who have city water use well water as all city water comes from deep wells. It's very good water, too. As for SoCal, there are a great many very complicated reasons for their water problems. One simple reason is too many people in what is essentially a desert. Not only fighting with neighboring states, but within the state: ask the people in Owens Valley or at Mono Lake about that! (Read Cadillac Desert) Oh well enough of that, it's a nice cool morning, after a very hot summer and I am going to weed and deadhead. Emilie NorCal (the "lost" California) |
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