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Re: to stalk the wild slug...

Hmmm...I guess if you have *lots* of time, but I don't.  I did lots of
picking and stomping etc. (and still do) but the fact is that there are
always more slugs out of sight than in sight, and despite all that I would
get maybe one or two flowers on some of their favorite plants, all the
rest becoming slug noshes.  This year I finally broke down and used slug
bait. 

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Robert C. Beer		  	      ...she stood on the balcony,
bbeer@u.washington.edu       	      inexplicably mimicking his hiccuping
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~bbeer  and amicably welcoming him in...

On Tue, 27 May 1997 gwilson@telebyte.net wrote:

> So, how many acres are you maintaining and how much time do you spend on
> it in a year.
> 
> Kris Schludermann wrote:
> > 
> > it's been my experience that the only way to control slugs & snails
> > is to actively hunt them. poison trails or beer traps only work in
> > confined quarters. to really decimate the population requires
> > active participation. here's what i do:
> > 
> > 1) hunt
> >   a. seek & destroy during and after rain storms
> >   b. get ducks
> >   c. hold dances/parties outside during the evening & stomp
> > 
> > 2) trap & extract
> >   a. set out wide boards elavated on low rocks
> >   b. set out sheets of cardboard
> >   c. set out tarps of dark plastic sheeting
> > 
> > repeat as neccessary:)
>
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