2007-07-23 15:54:58 · 5 answers · asked by mimi h 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Your first to answeres are correct essentially the salt pulls all the moisture out of their bodies and they die... It also works on leeches if you are every camping and find your self with a leech attached to you, you can just pour some salt on and no more leech
2007-07-23 16:03:14 · answer #1 · answered by klr878 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Salt act like a corrosive material on the slug's skin. It eats away at the flesh; thereby dissolving the slug. It can be slow process. And you have to be careful of where you use it. Salt can kill plants as well. The salt plugs up the root pours of the plant, as well as drying it out. Your better off saving the salt to be used as a weed killer. There are other methods of killing slugs in your garden. (see links)
2007-07-23 23:40:30 · answer #2 · answered by Tarlyng 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Creates a severe water gradient , between the outside of the skin , & the inside . It sucks the water out of their bodies . Keep in mind, it will do damage to your plants also, so don't sprinkle it on the ground . You can use a container with salt as a collection device, if you are hand-picking the slugs.
2007-07-23 23:03:24 · answer #3 · answered by mikeinportc 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In case you hadn't noticed, slugs and snails are extremely moist, to say the very least. They can not survive without that high moisture content. Salt extracts the moisture from them and they die.
2007-07-23 22:59:06 · answer #4 · answered by Tom K 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the slime that protects them gets dry and makes a chemical reaction causing it to bubble and dry and evaporate
2007-07-23 22:58:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋