Re: copper and slugs

**K* M* <k*@iol.ie>**

My experience has been that slugs will cross copper if they have to  
but given other options will avoid it. In your case the cup would  
have acted as an insulator so there wasn't a difference in electrical  
potential to upset it.

Kathryn

On 18 Apr 2008, at 06:08, MARY FRAN MCQUADE wrote:

> I have my doubts about copper bothering slugs.
>
> I did a small experiment a while back, when I put a slug in a cup  
> that had
> that sticky copper tape all around the rim. While I watched, the slug
> slithered up the side of the cup, then sat up on the copper and  
> waved at me
> while it looked around from its perch. It didn't seem to me to be  
> the least
> bit repelled or unhappy.
>
> Maybe our Canadian slugs are just more metal-tolerant? Or maybe  
> mine are
> just tougher by nature.
>
> Mary Fran in finally-thawing Toronto
>
>
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