This is a public-interest archive. Personal data is pseudonymized and retained under GDPR Article 89.

Re: Slug control with copper strips

Hi BJ--

I've been following this thread every since yesterday (and even just posted
a comment a few minutes ago), but at this point I really have to say
something a bit irreverent (sp?)

Anyway, in the "old" days before I started working at Apple and got caught
up in computers and of course way before I decided to try to my hand at
this fledgling Web magazine enterprise idea, I used to be a psychologist.

The joke going around graduate school about electric shock thereapy was
that of course it worked. After all if you shocked the h*** out of someone
and scared them enough, they'd change their behavior really fast.  Guess
it's the same thing for the slugs.

Carol
PS -- I enjoy your postings very much

>well i know that if you get new filling in and touch a stainless steel fork
>to them you get a shock. I think its a chemical reaction THAT results in an
>electric shock. If you take a strip of copper and a strip of zinc, hook up to
>a small light bulb and insert the strips opposite each other you get a small
>current of electricity.
>
>BJ


                         The Bay Area Gardener <http://www.gardens.com>
                 **serving gardeners in the greater San Francisco Bay Area**
                       * email:editor@gardens.com * phone: 415-968-4480 *
                           301 Windmill Park Lane, Mtn. View CA 94043
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index