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Re: Slugs again

On Sat 20 Jun, Allan Day wrote:
> 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.

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Allan Day  Hereford HR2 7AU allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
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