Here's my latest video on slug control: coffee, eggshells, paprika, diatomaceous eart

[2LaneCruzer]

Not to be an alarmist, but I assume that most of you are aware that slugs can sometimes carry some pretty horrific parasites...not easily contracted unless eaten, but there nonetheless. I wouldn't touch the little buggers, and would especially keep kids and pets away from them.

 

[goeduck]

Not to be an alarmist, but I assume that most of you are aware that slugs can sometimes carry some pretty horrific parasites...not easily contracted unless eaten, but there nonetheless. I wouldn't touch the little buggers, and would especially keep kids and pets away from them.

Tiny baby slugs can accidenty be eaten as well as slug slime. I pretty much stopped eating lettuce, too hard to make sure it is clean.

 

[Jstpssng]

Not to be an alarmist, but I assume that most of you are aware that slugs can sometimes carry some pretty horrific parasites...not easily contracted unless eaten, but there nonetheless. I wouldn't touch the little buggers, and would especially keep kids and pets away from them.

My current Lab had lungworm when I got him, which apparently is contracted from licking slug trails or slugs. I saw him grab a slug and wolf it down one day. Yet he was tied out for the first year of his life and had to forage for food-he was 20 pounds underweight when I got him- so it's no wonder that he ate what he could find.

Somewhere between the Pacific Ocean and here in Ea WA there is a "line in the sand". No slug will cross this line. My sister lived on the Oregon coast and had slugs the size of boa constrictors. Salt worked great but quite soon - nothing would grow where salt was used. She found that coffee grounds worked about half as well as salt.

How much salt was she using? It doesn't take a lot to make one shrivel up and die. If she was using it as a barrier, lime will accomplish the same thing.

 

[oosik]

Knowing my sister and how much she hated slugs - I'm sure she was using a LOT more than necessary. She finally went over to coffee grounds.

 

[bunyip]

Where do slugs and snails hide, we look for hiding spots and find none but as soon as it rains the garden is full of them, do they teleport in from another dimension?
No mention of the copper band.

 

[dragoneggs]

Where do slugs and snails hide, we look for hiding spots and find none but as soon as it rains the garden is full of them, do they teleport in from another dimension?
No mention of the copper band.

I think they hide in the dark and are quite small and probably swell up quite a bit and quickly when it rains. Just a guess though.

 

[goeduck]

Slugs hide in dark moist places. Under fallen leaves, boards, etc. Leave a flower pot turned upside down in your garden with one edge propped up and look for them a few days after. Or leave some cabbage leaves (curved side down) in a pile.

Or just walk barefoot at night over your lawn, you will find them between your toes. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Ducks eat them. I have lots of ducks on the water but they will not come up on my property to look for them.

 

[dragoneggs]

Slugs hide in dark moist places. Under fallen leaves, boards, etc. Leave a flower pot turned upside down in your garden with one edge propped up and look for them a few days after. Or leave some cabbage leaves (curved side down) in a pile.

Or just walk barefoot at night over your lawn, you will find them between your toes. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Ducks eat them. I have lots of ducks on the water but they will not come up on my property to look for them.

Ducks love them! But then you have duck poop between your toes!

 

[bunyip]

We used to have ducks, never again, twice their own body weight a day and usually on a door step.

 

[tractorgp]

Not to be an alarmist, but I assume that most of you are aware that slugs can sometimes carry some pretty horrific parasites...not easily contracted unless eaten, but there nonetheless. I wouldn't touch the little buggers, and would especially keep kids and pets away from them.

25 years or so ago I thought I'd be smart and fried up some large slugs in oil and garlic. They were very meaty and not bad at all. But there was some kind of a bad feeling after that in my belly. Also I got to thinking about what the slugs are eating out in my back yard... cat and dog poop etc. So, seeing as how I've been playing around with slugs and electric fences for more than 30 years I have to rate myself as pretty stupid for that experiment.