We have had a wet spring, and our field is overrun with slugs. Once the farm is established, I expect the slug population will be controlled by the construction of snake habitat and perhaps the introduction of ducks. A systematic, integrated approach to slug control will take time to develop, and I need less slugs now, so I set the first slug traps last weekend, and almost a thousand slugs have since drowned in my traps. Yoghurt containers with holes in their sides, filled with a mixture of sugar, water, yeast, and grapefruit chunks, attract the slugs, which then drown themselves in the delicious alcoholic solution. People can be trapped using identical methods, provided the trap design is scaled-up appropriately.
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1000 slugs?! That is nuts!
Chickens like them too, but muscovy ducks really like them.
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