All attractants are a double-edged sword. All these methods lead to the inevitable consequence that more slugs and snails are attracted into the garden. Therefore, you are ultimately shooting yourself in the salad if you try to use slug baits or beer traps to kill slugs and snails.
They may just come back in greater numbers. Copper Against Slugs. Slug barriers. Schnexagon: Slug Deterrent Paint. Slug Collars. Slug Resistant Flowers. Snail and Slug Resistant Vegetables. I was glad to know that beer is too much of an attraction- I was just about to set a whole bunch of beer traps! I never had slugs or snails until I brought in a new batch of bark mulch- and have been plagued ever since.
Not so badly this year, as it has been dry until a few days ago and then- bingo! There they are again. The ammonia in a ratio 1 part ammonia to 10 parts water sprayed directly on the slugs or snails- kills them and turns to nitrogen which apparently the plants can use just fine in that form.
Excellent article. I would never have thought that I would be attracting more slugs with beer traps let alone poisoning my hedgehogs! I use two lots of beer traps in two separate gardens. One backs onto the scrub of a golf course while the other backs onto a farmers field. They are only used on beds containing hostas and since using the beer traps there has been no slug damage whatsoever.
It is a truly amazing control system. The owners of both properties are only home periodically and so a management solution was required that would last a week or two at a time which is why the pellets were not doing the job.
This argument of drawing even more slugs to the hosta beds holds no water in my experience as I have never seen anything else work so effectively. Yes, beer traps are famous. Yes, you catch slugs with them. Yes, slugs are attracted to beer more than to hostas. This is why you also attract slugs from the neighborhood into your garden. And you kill beneficial animals in them — including snail hunter beetles and beneficial snails. You harm the biodiversity in their gardens. The traps need to be set, emptied and cleaned again and again — time-consuming.
And they take the joy out of gardening. Please enjoy your garden and have a look here: There are many alternatives to control slugs. That at least removes that risk to hedgehogs. I have an old seat cushion that has been in the garden for over a year. Suddenly almost over night it looks as though it has been stabbed and slashed with a knife. I have been told that it is probably snails.
Is someone joking with me or could they be right? Thank you Shannon, very good question! May someone find an answer for you! I have garden slugs that come on the front porch nightly at 10 p. They like graham crackers crumbs even after 6 months. Amazon Affiliate Link. Author Recent Posts. Alexander Boeckmann. Gardening in harmony with nature. Latest posts by Alexander Boeckmann see all.
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This threat of dessication affects their behaviour. This behaviour can mean that land snails aestivate [hibernate] in drier times. They seal themselves to rocks, logs, leaves or even other snails. The epiphragm is permeable to oxygen but reduces moisture loss.
The snail may even secrete more than one epiphragm if the conditions are severe. In these cases, they retreat even further into their shells.
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