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Article About Slugs

17 years ago

The most inhumane of our tactics in the war on slugs is to sprinkle salt on their backs. People are driven to this brutal method because slugs are maddeningly destructive in the garden or field.

So says this two-page article about slugs at Slate, but the author doesn't have any other (presumably more humane) suggestions, unless you count cooking and eating them, which I do not.

Their sex lives, while extremely flexible, can also be uniquely miserable. Ugh.

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rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
17 years ago
Hmmmmm. Call me cruel, but I can't wrap my brain around calling any method of slug control 'inhumane'. Salting, snipping, baiting, drowning (in beer, no less), and other methods are all something that I am quite willing to take part in.
nancykvb
17 years ago
Love the article, very interesting...still gonna kill em!

We have had to tighten our belts with this economy, but not to the point of even thinking about eating slugs...YUCK!

Nancy VB
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richdelmo
17 years ago
There is a reason they call them "Slugs"

As there is a reason we call a lady bug a lady bug. Figure it out.

Slugs destroy my plants, I destroy slugs in any manner that works....
tsugajunkie z5 SE WI ♱
17 years ago
So salt is no good, but burning them alive, "saute them" is ok? I suppose I could try an order of sauted slugs...heavy on the butter and garlic...oh, and salt, please.

tj

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