Re: Slugs and snails
- To: t*@xtra.co.nz
- Subject: Re: Slugs and snails
- From: B*@monterey.edu (Barry Garcia)
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 23:25:15 -0800
timdut@xtra.co.nz writes:
>Sorry folks, I have to gloat a little. You can all solve your slug and
>snail problem by moving to Kaitoke, Upper Hutt, New Zealand. For some
>unknown reason there are no snails out here and very few slugs indeed.
>Certainly I grow wonderful hostas without any holes in the leaves. My
>ducks
>have to eat worms instead.
>
>Not a very practical suggestion to the snail problem perhaps, but it sure
>would inflate the value of property around here if you all took it up =)
> And it IS a very organic solution.
>
>Tim Dutton
>"Raindrops", Kaitoke, Upper Hutt, New Zealand
I heard somewhere that it was the french settlers in california who
introduced the garden snail......probably why theyre so abundant! I have
occasionally seen the shells of a snail (im not sure if its native) thats
a flat spiral shape. Anyways, we also have southern "army boys" to blame
for the rampant bullfrog population on Ft. Ord. There are so many frogs,
you can walk around Mudhen Lake (a vernal pool in Ft. Ord) and see almost
hundreds of these things jump out of your way. You can also see their
amphibian eyes as they peer at you from the lake, and hear their loud
croaks! They're such a problem because theyve almost decimated the red and
yellow legged frogs that are native (i think these are the local tree
frogs, as we call them).
