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Re: Slugs

In a message dated 6/19/98 1:41:39 PM Pacific Daylight Time, nday@zoo.co.uk
writes:

<< 
 I avoid using anything to attract slugs, eg beer traps, since this surely
 attracts them from far and wide INTO the garden, passing tasty plants on the
 way to the traps? We find instead that a night-time trip with a torch to
 catch them lowers the numbers dramatically after a couple of weeks, each
 growing season.>>

Why not try putting the attractants in a part of your yard not at all near
your more tender plants?  Sort of attracting them to another part of the
garden away from the goodies.  Then collecting them at night.
 
 <>

I tend to have more snails than slugs.  I sometimes step on them when there
arent alot.  I collect them in bags otherwise.  I too found the crushed bodies
attracted their cannible brothers.  I actually liked that because I too have
found collecting them at night with a flashlight was the most effective way of
decreasing the population.  Anyway,  I could re-visit the area with the
crushed escargot and find others to kill or collect.  Kind of like a snail
'terminal'  :) :)

Janet.
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