SLUG TRAP EXPERIMENT

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Karrie20x Spokane, WA(Zone 5b) May 23, 2004

I cut a two liter plastic bottle just below the neck, inserted a piece of banana peel, then put the top back on, but in REVERSE. I sealed it with sticky packaging tape. Then I added a can of beer, a couple drops of liquid soap and a little water. It's now in the garden on it's side, waiting for slugs.

I got the idea out of a book, but I changed the concoction a little. If you think this will work, please tell me. If you have better ideas please tell me. I'll be making another in a couple of days. Here's a pic of what it looks like, standing upright.

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SoCal Huntington Beach, CA(Zone 10a) May 23, 2004

Karrie,

I'll look forward to seeing and hearing if this works for you. I've have done the normal beer in a bowl, and only got one or two every few days.

Do you know if this will work with sowbugs and earwigs also? I have so many of these darned bugs, and I know they are eating my plants more than the slugs. Ugh!

Do you know what the bananna and soap does to help this concoction?

Donna

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Karrie20x Spokane, WA(Zone 5b) May 23, 2004

Well, I can look up for you in that book what will work for sowbugs and earwigs.

I have heard that slugs like bananas, and I hear the soap helps kill them, so I combined the beer, banana peel and the soap together, to see what would happened. So far I have caught something I DIDN'T want to catch - an earthworm!

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Karrie20x Spokane, WA(Zone 5b) May 24, 2004

DUH - that wasn't an earthworm! It was the edge of the banana peel, lol!!!!!

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celia Cleveland, OH(Zone 5b) May 24, 2004

I saw someone do this on TV for earwigs. They used a smaller soda plastic bottle. Attached a handle to hang the contraption from a branch and used tuna cat food for the bait. Never tried it, don't have earwigs. But he swore that they LOVE the tuna catfood!

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celia Cleveland, OH(Zone 5b) May 24, 2004

If you go to HGTV website and do a search for earwig, you'll find the directions to make the trap, with pictures.

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