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Re: Slugs again

On Sat 20 Jun, Meconella@aol.com wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
Another point to bear in mind is slugs are cannibals, so if you have
dead slugs around they may be attracting more slugs......
Food for thought here.
-- 
Allan Day  Hereford HR2 7AU allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
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