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Slug Trap Success

T_R_Oglodyte

T_R_Oglodyte

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Set out my first slug trap of the year yesterday after I completed some planting. It's just an old Marie Callender's pie tin, set in the ground so the top edge is even with the soil, and filled with can of cheap beer. I put it next to a spot where some iris were showing a lot of damage.

Caught 20 of the critters overnight. I'll leave it out for a couple of more nights. I should wind up with at least ten more. Twenty is pretty close to a one night record for me.
 
T_R_Oglodyte said:
Set out my first slug trap of the year yesterday after I completed some planting. It's just an old Marie Callender's pie tin, set in the ground so the top edge is even with the soil, and filled with can of cheap beer. I put it next to a spot where some iris were showing a lot of damage.

Caught 20 of the critters overnight. I'll leave it out for a couple of more nights. I should wind up with at least ten more. Twenty is pretty close to a one night record for me.
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That's almost a meal's worth!
 
marinated snails

Years ago our garden was infested with particularly large and gross slugs (or so we thought).

Shortly after trapping dozens in beer, we read a newspaper article that an unusual and highly desirable species of French snails was turning up in local gardens .......

Perhaps we should have offered the marinated escargots to the local gourmands :p
 
I've never had any luck with the beer technique. Glad to hear that it worked for you.

Sue
 
Maybe you could get two Marie Callender's pie tins, fill one with Budweiser and the other with Millers and then count the bodies.

This could be a major advertising coup for one of the distributors: "Scientific studies have shown that slugs prefer Budweiser (Millers) over the competition by a margin of two to one." Of course, marketing will have to figure out whether this is a positive or a negative depending on whether they target their adds towards a bunch of slugs (of all kinds) or not.
 
How do you keep pets out of the beer?
 
Just remember to put out fresh beer each night. From what I've heard and read, they only like the fresh beer. If you just leave the same stuff in there, they apparently don't go for it.
 
"Roger" said:
Maybe you could get two Marie Callender's pie tins, fill one with Budweiser and the other with Millers and then count the bodies.

This could be a major advertising coup for one of the distributors: "Scientific studies have shown that slugs prefer Budweiser (Millers) over the competition by a margin of two to one." Of course, marketing will have to figure out whether this is a positive or a negative depending on whether they target their adds towards a bunch of slugs (of all kinds) or not.
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Roger,

I got a good laugh from your suggestion. Also reminded me of a cereal commercial from a few years back - "Mikey liked it!!"


Richard
 
dougp26364 said:
Just remember to put out fresh beer each night. From what I've heard and read, they only like the fresh beer. If you just leave the same stuff in there, they apparently don't go for it.
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In the past I've gotten several days usage out of one can of beer.
 
Slug beer traps didn't work well for me, either. However, if I picked up the slugs and dropped them into the beer, they died. They got very stiff. For some strange reason, I found that fascinating. I never fried bugs with a magnifying glass, but I wonder if dropping slugs in beer is the same thing. Am I evil? :eek:
 
Rose Pink said:
Slug beer traps didn't work well for me, either. However, if I picked up the slugs and dropped them into the beer, they died. They got very stiff. For some strange reason, I found that fascinating. I never fried bugs with a magnifying glass, but I wonder if dropping slugs in beer is the same thing. Am I evil? :eek:
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Only if you drink the beer.....
 
DeniseM said:
I would FAR rather have slugs, than a yard full of duck poop! :D
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I don't know - it depends on the relative quantity. Both are slippery.....

Rose Pink said:
Slug beer traps didn't work well for me, either. However, if I picked up the slugs and dropped them into the beer, they died. They got very stiff. For some strange reason, I found that fascinating. I never fried bugs with a magnifying glass, but I wonder if dropping slugs in beer is the same thing. Am I evil? :eek:
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Ewwwww, how did you pick them up????

I think swimming in beer is probably a better way to go --- that's if they either die happy or anesthetized.

And yes, just for thinking of it you are evil. I guess I am too for responding. :p
 
T_R_Oglodyte said:
In the past I've gotten several days usage out of one can of beer.
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Good to know. We haven't used this form of a slug trap yet but I've thought about it. I hadn't thought about using a pie plate and didn't think about putting in in the ground slightly to make it easier for the critters to get in. I'll keep this all in mind.
 
pjrose said:
I don't know - it depends on the relative quantity. Both are slippery.....



Ewwwww, how did you pick them up????

I think swimming in beer is probably a better way to go --- that's if they either die happy or anesthetized.

And yes, just for thinking of it you are evil. I guess I am too for responding. :p
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Salt is the most enjoyable way to do them in. Of, if you catch one out on a hot sunny day you put it on a nice warm paved area with full sun. Then put salt circle around them that they can't cross.

By then end of the day you have slug raisin.
 
Maybe you could sober them up and take them to one of the Slugfests in WA--do they still hold them? (Slug-racing contests, not slug-beer-drinking contests.)
 
DeniseM said:
I would FAR rather have slugs, than a yard full of duck poop! :D
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Especially duck poop made from slugs and stale beer! Eeeww!! LOL! :hysterical:

Dave
 
Whoee!!

Talk about road kill!!!
...and I thought we had it made in Kentucky with all them possums.
:cool:
 
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T_R_Oglodyte said:
Salt is the most enjoyable way to do them in. Of, if you catch one out on a hot sunny day you put it on a nice warm paved area with full sun. Then put salt circle around them that they can't cross.

By then end of the day you have slug raisin.
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If you pour the salt on them, they slime themselves to death.
 
Don said:
If you pour the salt on them, they slime themselves to death.
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Of course, but that's a quick death; interesting but quick.

*******

Had a drenching rain last night so I can't report on the effectiveness of the second night of beer. When I checked this morning the pie tin was filled with rain water.
 
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