What to do with slugs Ive collected!

Lorian

salt in the water.....

DiggerUK

dllive said:  I took out a pair of scissors and dispatched them one by one. It does make me skeptical of these beer traps that are meant to drown them.

It seems the therapy is working, maintain the progress. Might I suggest you drink the beer instead of considering wasting it on slugs and snails..._

SootySweep1

Hi
I have a council green bin & I put any I catch in there.
You do need to make sure you keep the lid on because they can slither out quite fast !
Jen

Elmer_BeFuddled

SootySweep1 said:

You do need to make sure you keep the lid on because they can slither out quite fast !

Aah! You have the species known as Slugus Christieus (racing slug)

Francesanne

Throw them over your garden fence in the dead of night.

dllive

Francesanne said:

Throw them over your garden fence in the dead of night.

Tempting, but wont they find their way bac in the garden? Ive know idea how fast or far they roam. I saw a post the other day where someone was warning against beer traps, becuase they attracted slugs/snails from the local area. Does anyone know how far they roam?

Davesnave

dllive said:

Francesanne said:

Throw them over your garden fence in the dead of night.

  Does anyone know how far they roam?

Research I've read suggests they can 'home' up to about 20m so you need a long throw, but I'd put them in a bait box and take them further than that.

purple45

I have a tried and tested and environmentally friendly method!  Coffee!  A couple of spoons of instant caffeine coffee in about a litre of water in a tub.  Drop the slugs into it and they generally stay there.  A few need knocking back in.  I use the same pot for a day or two and then dump it on the compost heap.  They're dead.  Last rainy night I got a record breaking 154 and only stopped because my back hurt!  I can't bring myself to part with beer for slugs but the coffee works.  It has to be caffeine as that is the killer ingredient!

badmemory

Salt - it is very quick.  Clear a bed of them then shake salt round the outside of it.  Okay until it rains.

silverwhistle

I flush them down my outside loo, including the ones that have had a drunken end in my beer traps.

On my new allotment on the other hand it's the caterpillars and birds, so that's next year's investment: netting..