Does burying tubs full of beer in your flower beds really trap and kill slugs and snails or is it just........

Question

.....a rumour put about by the tight slimy b@stards so they don't have to pay for any drinks?

Answer 1

Yes your are correct snails and slugs are tight slimy b@stards who never pay for a drink, no pockets. Think about it.

However they are hopless alcoholics and will fall into the tub of beer and drown, drunk and happy, but I much prefer to squish them under foot.

Big heavy boots are best, carpet slippers not very good.

Answer 2

Some of you have lost the plot, regarding this `slug extermination method`. You don`t use good beer, you either collect the beer left in cans/glasses after a party. Or you use `past its` sell by date` beer. Pour it into empty yogurt containers, but only half fill the tub/container, then bury it in the soil, so that the top of the tub is at ground level. The slug falls into the tub, sups the beer, gets drunk and can`t get out of the tub. It isn`t the drinking of the beer that kills it, it is being unable to get out of the tub, because it is inhebriated, it therefore drowns. If it was able to get out, it would have a hangover from the beer, but that is all. Incidently it also works with flat cola in stead of beer.

Answer 3

It does work, just keep a cover over it to prevent the rain watering down the beer, you don't need a full can an inch or so of beer in the bottom is sufficient.
You will know when it needs emptying as it will give off a rather noxious pong! That plus the fact you'll be noticing more slugs in the garden!

Answer 4

Yep it really works (but shhhhh...don't tell the little blighters)

Sink a shallow jar so the top is flush with the ground. Fill the trap with beer, regular or nonalcoholic to 1/2 inch from the top and wait for the slugs to fall in and drown. A recent survey on what kind of beer slugs like best tells us they prefer Budweiser, Bud light, Coors light, Michelob and Old Milwaukee.

I don't know how many snails and slugs they surveyed, but I've been using stale beer for years, and 90% of mine said the dregs of any beer are delicious.

Answer 5

LOL! It can work. Bury the beer cans or bottles that are 1/2 full but have the tops of them at the edge of the ground. There is something in the beer that attracts snails and slugs, so it is true!

Answer 6

Yes it works. They're commonly called slug pubs. You only need a thing the size of a margaine tub and fill it with the most rubbish beer you can get. Don't waste money on good stuff. Slugs aren't choosy, they'll drink American Budweiser or Boddington's foamy (sorry, creamflow) muck.

They crawl in, and drown. Only downside is that you have to clear out a rather nast slimy mush each morning.

Not only that, but slugs don't pay for their drinks either, except with their lives.

Get a hedgehog. They drink water (never give them milk, it kills them) and they'll eat your slugs for you.

Answer 7

Yes it really does work! just put a slurp (don't waste too much!) into an empty yoghurt or marge tub, a plastic or paper cup or even a cut down milk carton or 2 litre container and sink it into an indentation into the ground - about half way, the whole way in if you don't want the slugs to have to climb too high and work for it.

Once at the beer they will have reached the point of no return. Just upend the cup afterwards for the birds to enjoy ther sozzled snacks.

Answer 8

It does. Though it's better to use small saucers - this way you can spend just a can of beer or less to kill numerous slugs!
A saucer should be buried so that its rim is one level with the ground. Slugs smell beer, come closer, drink some, like it, then drink some more, and some more, and finally they have to get their front halves in the saucer to reach the beer, and then they fall in the saucer and cannot get out, and they get drowned. Hooray!

Answer 9

yes it does trap them .i have slugs and snails that come into my local all the time most of them drink themselves to death within 5 years sometimes they may go longer but they end up being incontinent and mentally ill i must admit that most of the landlords do not bury there beer in flowerbeds ,but i suppose this will be a good idea to get the slugs and snail into the beer garden and out of the pub

Answer 10

Yes, it does work, they are attracted to the sugar in the brew, just put a saucer full around your flowers or veg--(you could also use eggshells or anything sharp--glass or crockery will do)...no need for a tub full of the stuff though--what a waste!! SPIRITWALKER is also correct about the salt, pour some on one of the little fecker's and watch as it turns inside out...bloody amazin what sodium can do!! I would rather waste salt than beer anyday! Also--if you are into fishing, they make good bait!