Re: OT-Plants: Slugs
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] OT-Plants: Slugs
- From: M* C*
- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 08:25:52 -0400
I replied to Mark Cook off line concerning the riddled hosta leaves. I've
watched with interest the various means of compating slugs on the e-mail
list and decided to add my two-cents worth. There are a couple of other
pests who might be the culbrit - roly polys and snails. I only have tiny
snails, but roly polys can do a tremendous amount of damage.
I've used everything that has been suggested except the bamboo barbecue
skewers. I use an old pair of scissors. This seems to be the most
effective. I also put out bait (orange peels, watermelon or cantalope
rinds) to attract them to a particular spot and sprinkle poison on the
bait.. They seem to like cantalope best. Greenlight slug bait is the only
brand of bait I've found to be effective. Although the poison will kill
some of them, I think it just makes some sick. Ammonia seemed quite
effective when I found a spot where there were small ones that were too
small to see or were hidden in the bark of a tree. It actually drives them
out where you can see them - then get them with the scissors.
Greenlight is also effective on snails, but a different chemical has to be
used on roly polys.
Another way is place a rock or something similar close to the plant that is
being riddled and check under it every day.
During spring and fall I go out regularly around 10:00 at night on Slug
Patrol. My friends and neighbors thought I was crazy, but out of
desperation some have followed suit.
After 5 years of practicing an extensive eradication program, I still have
all three of the culprits although they aren't so concentrated in specific
areas.
Mickey Corley
Bethany, OK Zone 6/7
>In a message dated 5/31/00 10:01:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
irisborer@aol.com writes:
<< Get yourself a squirt gun and fill it with ammonia.... see if you
can so some of that fancy Annie Oakly stuff with a mirror over your
shoulder. >>
I'd frankly rather have slug damage than have saucers of dead slugs
floating
in beer around the place. I prefer hunting with bamboo barbecue skewers and
a
flashlight myself. One idea The Borer shared with me previously sounded
very
interesting. Something about putting a little ring of granular fertilizer
around the target plant. Said to suck the precious bodily fluids right out
of
them when they try to cross it. And then there was some slug-specific
bait--pheromone based--that Bill Smoot mentioned once.Was it called
Deadline?
With that one is said to be able to simply comehither them to their doom,
with no risk to other life forms. Of course one might be just issuing a
broad
invitation to a slug orgy. I used to use some bait around here until I
figured I'd lured every slug for a quarter mile into the yard. There were
hundreds of the things, eventually dead, mind you, but how do you stop
something like that?
Anner, in Virginia
ChatOWhitehall@aol.com<
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