too many slugs?

Question

i have a river right behind my house and my house is sitting on a downslope, so when it rains my yard seems to hold a lot of moisture. i live in NC where it is hot and humid most of the year. I noticed that in the spring and summer my backyard is literally infested with slugs. is there a product i can use to get rid of them? they crawl up to my back door and i really don't want to see them in my house. HELP PLEASE

Answer 1

The best remedy for slugs is something quite nice, non toxic, and readily available in most every store in NC... BEER! It can get gross, but it works. Take a shallow vessel, fill with beer, set in your garden where slugs congregate, wait half an hour, see them die, dispense, repeat. I've used this many times and it works great. If you use the slug-b-gone product, it works too, but that label with all the warnings scares the heck out of me. I love my dog and my cat. Beer won't hurt either of them, especially noting you'll be using about 1/4 cup in each "dose". Rainwater will dilute the mixture, you'll have to repeat it, but it's ok. Also, slugs aren't brand sluts, so the cheaper the better. Don't pour out your Carolina Pale Ale. :)

Answer 2

I'd go with the beer traps suggested by others. Salt and bait are expensive and salts can cause other problems, e.g. for your grass. The other thing is to put pieces of board or something similar around. Slugs hide in the day if the sun comes out. When you pick up the boards you'll find them clinging to the underside. If you really want to get on top of it in a hurry, make one of those old fashioned paper picker-uppers (long stick with a nail in it) and go out early in the morning. Around here some of the slugs get a good 6-8 inches long and I can spear a couple of dozen in minutes.

Answer 3

In asserting a rifled slug you mean a rifled Foster sort slug or Brenneke slug that are designed for smoothbore shotgun barrels have been as maximum saboted slugs are meant to be shot from rifled shotgun barrels and usually have a smaller diameter bullet interior the sabot. The rifled slug on a similar time as bigger in diameter and heavier leaves the barrel at a decrease speed then the sabots and could unfastened speed quicker and approximately max variety with a Foster sort slug IMO is approximately 75yds perhaps slightly extra with a Brenneke. The saboted shotgun rounds use a lighter bullet with a smaller diameter so they go away the barrel at a a ways better speed and preserve the speed extra taking place variety. Plus there are some surprisingly demanding hitting bullet designs interior the sabots. The Hornady SST, Winchester Platinum tip and the Barnes Expander are basically lots of the heavy hitters obtainable. in case you have a rifled slug barrel you are able to take benefit of them and feature extra desirable accuracy and variety. in case you have a smothbore barrel the rifled slugs could do you extra desirable yet one saboted slug I unquestionably have shot nicely from a smoothbore is the BRI sort that's packaged with the help of Winchester. so a ways as fouling you have got powder fouling with the two kinds yet with the rifled slugs you have got some lead fouling and with the saboted slugs seeing that they use a sabot you have got extra plastic fouling.

Answer 4

Use the cheapest beer you can buy. Space saucers of it all along the perimeter of your property, five to ten feet apart, with about a half of an inch of beer in each. I buy the inexpensive plastic bottoms for flower pots in my yard. If you get strong winds you can use glazed pot bottoms that weigh more, or anything else that is low enough for them to crawl into and does not absorb the beer.The slugs can't resist it. When you dump them out be sure to check underneath them for more slugs that will probably be hiding there.

Answer 5

Take the lid from a quart size jar, and fill it half full with beer. This works well for both snails and slugs. If you have a lot of them, put out half a dozen or more lids.

Answer 6

Slug salt. i lived in on the coast in Washington State where the average rainfall is high. Slugs were a nuisance there. We would have to buy a type of salt that kills them.

Answer 7

There are several slug/snail baits, dog/human hair will choke some of them, they don't like lime