How to STOP Slugs & Snails - Make a Beer Trap
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
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#snailtrap #beertrap #organicpestcontrol
This video is about how to trap and kill slugs and snails.
How to trap snails and slugs by making a snail trap with beer.
In this video I make a beer snail and slug trap, using an old plastic milk container and I also like to use old cans too as they last longer.
I have tried the yeast and sugar traps but find the snails didn't got to it and I was instead attracting European Wasps.
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Good Day, Elissa! I do something similar, but on a smaller scale. Since I got my chickens, I no longer have much of a slug and snail problem. The weather here in Central Florida is hot and humid in the summer, and I usually let them free-range in the garden area from August until I decide to start planting in mid-September.
Hello Carol Avant, yes chickens would keep the slugs and snails under control.
This particular garden is growing food all year around so I don’t let them in, but I have been tempted on occasions.
How many chook have you got Carol?
Good show Elissa ! I am amazed at well this works. I think this idea is really top sort. I think that possibly a couple more of these traps might work even better. Bookends with another in the middle.
Such a lovely and well put together channel. Great job!
Thank you Kaelin Cook, its lovely to see you here 😊
I LIKE THE OLD BEER TRAP METHOD. THEY GET TO GO VERY HAPPY AND DRUNK!
Hopefully it is a pleasant ending, surely better than snail poison.
Detached snails and slugs I go around the garden at night with a flashlight and their little Trails illuminate when the flashlight hits it so you can kind of tell the areas where there must active and then just look and it works all the time but I'm glad to know about this beer thing I'm going to try it immediately
Yes, I do this in my whole garden too, on the rare evenings / nights when we have rain.
The nocturnal snails and slugs come out of their hiding spots and are easy to find for duck treats, the next day.
The beer traps are like baby sitters in my food garden 🐌 🌱
Very beautiful, nice garden and trap to
I’ve just recently moved to an area with slugs and snails. Thank you for this helpful video. I’m just wondering if you have any tricks for removing the successful trap? How often do you replenish the beer? And then what do you do with the contents? Compost?
Seemed like this vid made you laugh a lot.
You can also use copper tape to line the edges of your plant pots. Slugs and Snails hate it. Most of them will avoid it and the adults will cross it if necessary but they look visibly uncomfortable. I'm not why but it works.
Thank-you for the video im doing a trap i use dish soap on a pry bottle killed them fast
I kinda feel bad for the little blighters. After all, I enjoy a beer in the garden and eating fresh veggies just like them...then I see how they're destroying what I've worked so hard for, and...not so much. Plus, there are a lot worse ways to go than in a lake of beer!
Hmm... if they were actually doing their job by just eating the lower leaves I would but nope, I hate them with a passion as they destroy everything
@@phifediggy9659 lol same I mean not one of my seedlings survive thanks to them pests 😡 and it’s not like I don’t have heaps of compost they can eat. They could quite easily live off the scraps and compost pile but nooooo they have to eat my veges etc. Plus it’s super unhygienic to let them crawl and eat all over ya food. They carry nasty parasites etc so best to get rid of them.
how far apart do they need to be to attract them ALL!? Thanks!
My neighbor NEVER mows his yard, so I help him out by throwing my snails over the fence.
Lol!
@@terrim.602 hahaha
That is such a great tip my friend. My naughty fur babies would find that in a second and they would be drunk out of their mind 🤣
Little Bean's Garden 😂 oh yes and then you’d never catch any slugs or snails either.
Hey ellisa that's a good idea
Shay Stein it works really well, but you have to ask your Parents before you take your dads beer to make this. 😂 🍺
@@MoatCottage very true😏😆
I've always left the trap higher and not flush with the soil so that other small insects etc don't fall in.
I'm wondering how come they can't get out?
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My problem is I don’t like touching the slugs when I find them 🤢
is there anyway you could use your ducks to control your slugs. There a a few channels that have ducks passing through active gardens. As in the ducks are herded through the garden, and not left in the garden.
I can’t let them
In my vegetable garden as it has vegetables in it all year around and the poultry would eat it before the slugs.
It’s also surrounded by my Staffies and one of them would certainly enjoy duck….
I do collect slugs and snails on rainy evenings and feed them out to the ducks.
What about just the usual stepping on them? 🙂
I use coffee to get rid of them 😄
How do you use it?
First of all lady you need to take a sip yo make sure it's good and a toast. Lol
Cheers to that Josh 🍻
Funny. Before the video begins, CZcams make me watch a commercial of Heineken.
LOL oh that is funny! That is much better than showing a chemical advert, as they sometimes do.
Which is a perfect beer for slugs. No guest drinks that p*ss :')
can u use any type of alcohol? cider, wine, champagnegen?
Beer works as the snails are attracted to the hops & yeast in the beer
@@et9233 yeah this was a year ago. Ive done the beer. it did work but i cant be buying beer all the time. i dont even drink.
@@Ash21Scotland 😂 same, my local shop will think I'm an alcoholic!
Hard to believe some folks think they're good to eat., isn't it? I think their slime trails are actually worse than when they eat stuff. Lol
Edie Boudreau I have thought about this free, food resource, that seem to thrive quite nicely here, but there is no way I can get my head around eating them.
For people who like both snails and beer, maybe pickled beer snails could be a treat? 🍺 🐌
Moat Cottage not for me. Yee-UCK
Edie Boudreau me either, I’ll be sticking to brandied kumquats 😂
Moat Cottage mmm. Sounds good. Lol
Does this work with slugs? Both snails and slugs are munching up my bell pepper plants I will definitely try this trick.
Thanks!
I pick them up (snails) and throw them on the road. I live on a main road. My friends and family laugh at me.. i hate snails. 🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌
It's so hard to find snails where I live so hopefully this works cause buying the. Is such a hassle :/ (this is as pets so itll be quite shallow)
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I may think snails are cute but snails are getting too far in my garden because I’m too kind to them
My friend told me usually she catches twenty slugs and snails a day in her slug trap..but this year none! Where's all the slugs
I don’t know, I’m still catching some. 🐌
In MY garden, apparently!
Is it humane?
Store bought poisons dehydrate the snails and they dry up and die. Beer traps attract the snails, they hydrate and drown….. 🐌
Other options is collecting them at night, when it’s raining, which I also do, but it Doesnt usually rain much here. The ducks then enjoy them the next day or you could prepare and cook them yourself, escargot!
cant believe you didn`t drink any first..
It’s easy when you’re not a beer drinker, I certainly wouldn’t be making wine traps 😜 🍷
I throw snails to the concrete drive way, birds eat them
I collect snails for the ducks when it rains but in the 20 year drought, we had until 2022, the beer traps were perfect
@@MoatCottage I would give a try when I got spare beers
Best way to empty ur dead slugs? toilet, bin?
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