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Post by Jonah on Jun 25, 2008 8:54:48 GMT
Hello all, can anyone give me any advice? I tried some beer traps last night to catch the slugs. The only thing to hand was foil pie dishes, so I tucked them in the beds full of cheap beer. On inspection there were loads of slugs at them, but when I checked this morning, although there are some casualties, there are nowhere near as many as were drinking last night. So, have they crawled away to die, regenerate, or have the birds and beasties likely got them?  Also, does it make them unpalatable to the predators, or toxic when they are inebriated? I tried google, but although it explains what they are attracted to in the beer, I couldn't find an explanation to its effect. Thanks if you can help.  |
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Post by Barbara on Jun 25, 2008 9:58:56 GMT
if the pot isnt deep enough they drink and go away, i use the bottom of lemonade bottles about 6 -8ins deep. birds still eat them and get pie eyed, i dont know about frogs or hedge-hogs but round at the bowling green gardens we planted a bucket full of beer slops, and we had to rescue a toad that was swimming in circles. ;D i dont know if he wanted saving or not  |
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Post by Jonah on Jun 25, 2008 10:54:59 GMT
Thanks Barbara I think I'd better work on getting some deeper containers, as they are probably tucked up with hangovers then...... maybe I can get plastic bottles and cut slits in them so hogs etc. can't get in. I'd better get creative. |
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Post by oldmoleskins on Jul 4, 2008 20:20:37 GMT
Did you get anywhere with the Mkll versions, Jonah? I've been thinking of trying this in the litre pots I've sunk into the ground alongside my toms, for watering down at the roots. If I was to drop cut off lemonade bottles in there between waterings, I might get a few overnight...
OM.
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Post by andy on Jul 5, 2008 4:34:55 GMT
The best thing to use is the beer cans themselves....for some reason, slugs can't get out of them.
I pick up hundreds of beer cans at work and some have a bit of beer still in there. You can usually predict at least half a dozen slugs in each.
One word of warning....i have been messing around with ponds and gardens since i could walk and i've come across some pretty grim smells in my time. However nothing, and i mean nothing can prepare you for the stench that comes from the combination of dead slugs in beer.
You've been warned ;D
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Post by Weeterrier on Jul 5, 2008 8:16:05 GMT
I second that  |
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Post by Rosefriend on Jul 5, 2008 8:18:53 GMT
It made me feel sick - it is one of the most vile smells that I have ever smelt.
RF
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Post by Barbara on Jul 5, 2008 8:36:15 GMT
you should smell the milk one  people were leaving the street last week and were actually heaving as i emptied it, i kid you not |
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