Slugs and a request for your comments

Leigh Blake via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Mon, 21 Aug 2023 05:48:31 PDT
Thanks for an interesting idea, Kathleen!!!

On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 6:57 PM Kathleen Sayce via pbs <
pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:

> A couple of years ago I read that an Oregon State University research
> team, and members from other universities, tested a group of slug
> attractant ideas, and found that the top one was actively fermenting bread
> dough. It even beat beer as a slug attractant! It can be used several ways,
> as dough balls under a protective cover (to provide cool shade for slugs),
> or as a thin, bubbling liquid in a container buried to the rim in the
> ground. The benefit of the latter method is that slugs move into the liquid
> and drown.
> Here’s a link to a research paper on the topic:
> https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/… <
> https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/…>
> Homemade bread ferments are even cheaper than beer.  :  )
>
> Kathleen
> PNW coast, AQI has fallen to 20 over the past couple of hours, visibility
> is still poor through the smoke.
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