Slow mollusks

Usage examples of snails.

Traps can be used for flies, moths, European wasps, aphids, beetles, slugs and snails, and many more pests.

They eat ants, aphids, cutworms, flies, moths, mosquitoes, slugs, snails, spider mites, termites and many other pests.

Most blowflies, bluebottle flies and flesh flies buzz around the world looking for garbage - although some go in for rather more exotic fare, like parasitizing snails or earthworms!

This trap was devised by entomologists from the University of California while trying to control snails in highway landscaping.

There's a lot of snails, but five hundred soldiers'd see the end of them!

They run the gamut, from surrounding the garden with copper stripping to keep out snails, to encircling each plant with its own little paper collar to foil cutworms.

They look a bit like a cigar with legs, but they eat their way through snails and slugs like nobody's business.

You may consider thinning out plants like these where snails congregate and breed.

Some people insist that the snails drink their beer and then go home to sleep it off.

You can strain the dead snails out of the liquid and reuse it, covering it during the day to keep it from evaporating, but it is going to be most effective in the first twenty-four hours.

One thing about these traps that is horrid but effective: slugs and snails are attracted to the dead bodies of their own kind.

Other hiding places of doom include cabbage leaves, lettuce leaves and potato slices Slugs and snails are also drawn to raw bread dough and, believe it or not, dry dog food.

Crushing a few snails on the underside of the board will draw in others.

Tell them the snails are running (just like the Fraser Island tailor), and organize a contest to see who can get the most.

Both these techniques can be used on snails extended out of their shells.