How to Kill the Slimy Bastards (a.k.a. Slugs)

I am intrigued by the melon method, I’ve got a melon waiting to be eaten too.

I used sluggo late last year. This year, no problem with slugs. None. Not a single sign of slug damage.

Maybe it killed them all and there weren’t any left to lay eggs. It’s a nice thought, anyway.

who can resist a comment to a slug killing. they eat a hole in just one leaf of my aloe plant and the plant rots. Not that they will decide to do an orgy on one plant and get it over with, they split up and each choose a seperate plant. I combine all methods including the slug pellets.
by the way my aloe blog is also on blogger.

Good grief.
I can understand the overwhelming need to kill off an offending interloper. You sound just like I do when I talk about House Sparrows. Too bad the sparrows don’t crawl around to be picked up.
I have many, many slugs around here. My 4 1/2 year old daughter likes to pick them up and watch them. I haven’t had a problem with them eating much, though. Just lucky, I guess.

Here’s a link to using your leftover coffee - <a href=”http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/reports/archive/science_nature/slug_caffeine_mail.shtml” rel=”nofollow”>Coffee to kill slugs</a>.

It does have to be strong, though, to get the caffeine content high enough.

Well, I’ve never had to deal with slugs before, so when I came home late one night to find them hanging from my siding on my front porch it scared the hell out of me. And I feel that the only way to kill them is to watch them suffer in a pool of salt. It made me feel good to watch them die. Thanks for the tip!

One of the best ways to get rid of slugs is to avoid watering at night time, water plants in the morning instead. Slugs need moist environments.

The beer traps work great, but make sure that they cannot drink the beer without falling in and drowning.

You can also take a flashlight outside around mid-night and find those that did not make it to the party.

Salt also is great for killing slugs, but make sure you don’t put salt in your garden because it will make the soil toxic, and your plants will likely die.

Good luck to all you slug killers!!!

I get a pair of tongs and chuck them across the street at night to my neighbors yard, driveway, and ontop of their cars. They are annoying neighbors that party with their music loud all the time and disturb the other neighbors. Its satisfying to chuck them over and land on their cars. Fun too!!!!

I pluck em off n throw em into a bucket of hot water then tip em down the drain!
when u do this some of em make quite a satisfying pop sound.

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Try living in Hawaii. We just had a heavy rain and there are hundreds of them all over the place! On the walls, windows lawn and plants! I used chopsticks to pick them up and drop in a bucket with saline solution. So far after 2 days of slug hunting I have killed at least 300-400 of the buggers! Oh yea, don’t forget the snails. They are as big as a child’s fist!

My father had a particularly satisfying method. He’d duck taped a carving knife to a stick/handle and walked around slicing slugs. No need to bend over. Sort of a Polo swing sort of action. I love it. I get great pleasure slicing slugs. Death is certain and it also attracts other slugs. So you can return and kill again! This knife was strong enough to double as a weeding tool in his lawn. He stick it down beside a dandelion and slice into the root path 6-8 inches deep. And the weed was then flipped out with the withdrawing knife. I do look forward to damp nights out with my headlamp and knife on a stick.

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haha LOVE this website!!! ALL things are God’s creatures but I bet HE’d step on one TOO if they were makin swiss cheese outta HIS zinnias! You all ROCK!

Wow,
Those tiger slugs not only go after beer, they like vodka drinks and marlboro lights!
I’ve had it! Those little you know whats must DIE!!!
Hey, how ’bout them squirrels?
Arrrh!
No prisoners taken.
MM

They must die!!! They are eating my rabbits food. I got a kick out of all the ways to kill the nasty buggers. Thanks for all the tips. Tried salt tonight it was fun to watch them die but still want to make sure I got them all. What should I try next? It is also a good way to get out any penned up anger just take it all out on the grouse slugs.

i found a slug eating my peppers ealier so i slug pelleted my plants. and then i stuck a pellet in the hole in its head when it took a gasp of air and it started to wiggle from left to right shakeing its ass quite quickley for a slug.

it did it for like 10 mins and i got bored and impailed it with a tent peg. and just as i was leaveing i saw a catapilla so i karate chopped it screeming like bruce lee and it exploaded into 2 halfs.