Slugs. Life Or Death?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

Poll question: Slugs. Life Or Death?

and your preferred method of slugocide?

[flamingyouth]

1. I use the beer traps

They seem to be at least somewhat happy...

[Raster]

2. cake or death?

[x-g.o.p.er]

4. cake, please.

I absolutely love Eddie Izzard.

[Jade Fox]

12. Isn't he the best?

I love that he is incredibly funny, yet sweet. A hard combo to pull off.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

6. or like the old joke... death? or oooga, booga?

Hell, no death for me... I will take oooga booga*, thanks.

Okay, the chief says... death by oooga booga.








* for those of you who do not know old jokes, oooga booga was this particular tribe's term for anal sex.

[JCRobinhood]

23. death, I mean CAKE!

love Eddie Izzard!
Just saw "SEXIE"... pretty good, but nothing compares to "Dress To Kill".

[m-jean03]

3. Salt is kind of fun to watch

:evilgrin:

[Padraig18]

5. Call me old-fashioned, but...

I prefer salt. You can hear them scream "I'm MELTING!", if you lean close....

:evilgrin:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

7. Salt, most definitely

Although I haven't tried the alternatives. I always feel somewhat guilty at melting them, but damn it, stay off our plants!!!

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. My dog abhors slugs.

:hi:

[theivoryqueen]

9. other - PLEASE!! Slugs are great moisturizers

the slime they excrete is extremely effective at healing chapped, wounded or otherwise traumatized skin. The same mechanism by which their slime keeps their unprotected bodies able to keep from drying out work for us, as well. As we write, scientists are trying to develop synthetic slug slime!!!! Catch them and save them or release them into the wild.

[qanda]

10. My children adore slugs and snails

They often bring slugs in the house. They kept one in their room one night and he got away-- I still don't know what happened to that poor slug. That was the last slug they kept in the house and since then I've made them put them back outside, but we would never kill them. They're fascinating to watch and learn about.

[theivoryqueen]

11. Thank you! spare the salt and save the slug!!!!

[Jade Fox]

13. No salt! They actually have complex central nervous sytems....

and the salt is painful!

Let them die a Dionysian death in their beloved beer.

[FranzFerdinand]

14. slugs are f'in gross

i just kick them around. sometimes the dogs get at them. f'in yuck!

[Solly Mack]

15. Ever seen a slug mate?

If you had, you'd keep those industrious and daring little critters alive.

I have. They were suspended from the side of my house by a thin stream of mucous...writhing and intertwining....a good 3 feet off the ground. One false move and they would have crashed to the ground...maybe splattering, maybe not.

I let'em be and went into the house. They were gone later.

[daligirrl]

16. I stepped on a big one once. . .

On my grandmother's back porch. I completely squished it. It made me sick for hours, and it took forever to scrape it off my foot. They're really sticky.

[radwriter0555]

17. good old slug bait and snail hurling. Extra point for getting past the

center line on the road.

NO MERCY!

[Leprechan29]

18. If you are lucky enough to have some

Try caffeine pellets. The thing will go nuts, then go calm. Don't know if it will kill it though...

[Feanorcurufinwe]

19. I have so many snails I'm thinking of putting on snail races.

No slugs though. I like the snails.

[elperromagico]

20. One of the little buggers resurrected on me once.

A slug found its way onto my front porch a while back. I gave it the salt treatment, and went back to whatever I was doing. After about half an hour, I went back out... and the slug was crawling around again!

Jesus Slug!

[depakid]

21. Beer traps actually attract slugs

and so as often as not, those few that actually meet their demise have already enjoyed a last meal in your garden.

Diatomaceous earth works well when spread about or around slug or snail favorites, but it washes away with watering.

The best thing I've used is copper tape. It reacts with the slime to produce an electronic charge- and slugs won't cross it.

[WillParkinson]

22. I move them elsewhere...

I don't kill anything if I can avoid it.