I'm reluctant to waste good beer on slugs, but I've heard that it's the yeast they really like, not the beer as such. I kept the yeasty sludge from a batch of homebrew (kit beer), added sugar and water, and used that to bait a few jam jars, which I then buried in the soil yesterday evening.
This morning I went out eagerly to check my traps and... not a sausage! Nor a slug, which might look quite similar to a sausage, but should not be confused. I wasn't entirely surprised by the total failure, as I'd spotted this little fellow last night checking out one of the traps and deciding it wasn't worth the risk:
The slugs round here aren't as daft as they look.
A sure-fire way of combating slugs is to get your 15-stone husband to tread on them as he makes his way to the downstairs loo, as mine did last night. Of course, you have to put up with a lot of shouting of the "EEEURGH, yuk, AARGH" sort, but if you'd seen the size of the slug you'd probably have though it worth it.
ReplyDeleteI just wish I could find out how the little buggers are getting into my hall!
Did he have bare feet at the time...?
DeleteVery thin socks. I did very well not to laugh.
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