How to get rid of slugs?

[JohnR7]

There has been a standard cure for slugs for years. You give them beer to drink. Sure you can go out with your flash light and they will have their little party hats on and be hooping and hollering away. But in the morning, they will have gotten drunk and fallen into the beer and drown.

But now, do to a mutation in the evolutionary development of slugs a new group is emerging that just does not like to drink beer. So now how do we get rid of them? Never fear, the collage boys have an answer. Give them coffee. It seems that it stimulates their heart rate and they will high tale it out of there to get away from the caffine.

My only question is, how do they manage to slap the cuff on those little guys to get their vital signs? Can you really get a slug to climb on the tread mill to give them a stress test?

 

[ZiSunka]

The best way to get rid of slugs is to clean up the leaf litter in your garden. If you don't have a lot of freshly rotting organic material around, the slugs don't have anywhere to hide their clumps of eggs and they won't lay them unless they have a place to hide them, and they'll migrate to a place where they can lay their eggs. So, a rake a day keeps the slugs away!

As for the evolutionary thing, it sounds more like natural selection than evolution. The slugs that liked beer are dead from drinking beer, and all that's left are the ones who prefer coffee!

 

[LiveFreeOrDie]

Originally posted by JohnR7
My only question is, how do they manage to slap the cuff on those little guys to get their vital signs? Can you really get a slug to climb on the tread mill to give them a stress test?

The cuff that the nurse puts on your arm is to measure blood pressure not heart rate.

Heart rate is measured electrically. Ever hear of a gizmo called an EKG?

 

[Neo]

Originally posted by JohnR7
How to get rid of slugs? 

According to the bible, you don't need too, because slugs melt away as they move: "Like a slug melting away as it moves along …" (Psalm 58:8).

 

[JohnR7]

Originally posted by LiveFreeOrDie
Ever hear of a gizmo called an EKG?

Ok, so how do you hook a EKG up to a slug?

 

[LiveFreeOrDie]

Originally posted by JohnR7
Ok, so how do you hook a EKG up to a slug?

How do you hook an EKG up to a person?

Scale it down by 100 times, I guess.

 

[JohnR7]

Originally posted by LiveFreeOrDie
How do you hook an EKG up to a person?

I think they glue them on. Slugs are mostly made up of slime, it would be hard to get the glue to stick. I use to find them every now and then when I was digging around in our garden. I would fling them out to the driveway and the birds would give them about 5 min. to cook in the sun. Then they would swoop down and get 'em. I am not real big on killing anything, but those things are disgusting to look at and they like to eat the roots of the tender shoots of plants as they are just coming up out of the seed.

 

[Humanista]

OK, how do I get rid of slugs IN MY HOUSE? I have no idea how they get in, but I find them in several downstairs rooms at night (try stepping on one barefooted!eeeewwwww!) or see their shiny trails the next day. I can never find where they hide during the day. And these are the BIG ones!

 

[Morat]

Offhand, run copper wire along the ground. Slugs dislike the feel of copper.

 

[Humanista]

Yeah, that's practical----cover the entire floor of my house with copper wire.

 

[ifriit]

No, I think he means the edge of the rooms you find them in--they won't crawl over the wire, so they'll stay off of it and out of the "fenced off" areas.

 

[JohnR7]

Originally posted by Humanista
Yeah, that's practical----cover the entire floor of my house with copper wire.

Maybe you run some power though the wire and then you could really cook them puppies.

Also, you can try salt. The salt does not go well with their slime, and they say that will do them in.

 

[GraftMeIn]

Quack! Quack! Ducks like to eat slugs And I heard that opossums also like to eat slugs.

 

[Orihalcon]

i have yet to find a slug or snail immune to lots of salt.

 

[JagSayon]

Yeah, you can't go wrong with salt. Years ago when I was in high school, my friends and I found a snail/slug (whatever it was). So we were contemplating what form of torture we would do to it...yes, I was a sadist then. So my friend suggested using salt and he ran to canteen and got a packet of salt from one of the vendors. He came back and took a handful and just flung it on the snail/slug.

The slug literally exploded! Its juices were flung all over the place and I think the shell and parts of its sublimated body was left. Later, another of my friend had a nice time of snail/slug golf where he used a branch to "tee off". The point is use salt and a biohazard suit if you are within close proximity.

Jag

 

[humanimal]

Originally posted by JohnR7
Give them coffee. It seems that it stimulates their heart rate and they will high tale it out of there to get away from the caffine. 

I am trying to imagine a bunch of slugs dashing across my garden...

 

 

[humanimal]

Originally posted by ifriit
No, I think he means the edge of the rooms you find them in--they won't crawl over the wire, so they'll stay off of it and out of the "fenced off" areas.

 

slug corrals?

 

[humanimal]

Originally posted by JagSayon
Later, another of my friend had a nice time of snail/slug golf where he used a branch to "tee off".

Jag

slug golf...

this is getting worse and worse

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by Humanista
OK, how do I get rid of slugs IN MY HOUSE? I have no idea how they get in, but I find them in several downstairs rooms at night (try stepping on one barefooted!eeeewwwww!) or see their shiny trails the next day. I can never find where they hide during the day. And these are the BIG ones!

Table salt kills slugs

 

[Morat]

You don't even need slug corrals. Just note where they're coming from (in my case, under a specific length of fence. I just strung some copper wire along the ground. Viola, no more slugs.