GIANT snails

[hikatz]

We bought one of those grabber's,they sell at Walmart or Home Depot. We use it to pick up cans,rubbish around the yard, street, ect. Also great for picking up slugs or snails, a non toxic way to kill them, is to put cheap beer in a bucket and drop them in. Works great,

[Hotzcatz]

We used to have loads of them around but I pick them up when I find them and fly them into the air so they will crash and crunch. A friend of mine asked one of the agricultural advice agencies, I forget which one, how to get rid of the snails and their advice was to line them all up on the driveway and run over them. ??? So much for governmental advice. After smuooshing all the ones I find eventually there are a lot less of them. I did find one small one in the garden last week but that had been one of the first ones I'd seen in ages.

[ohanamama]

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We bought one of those grabber's,they sell at Walmart or Home Depot. We use it to pick up cans,rubbish around the yard, street, ect. Also great for picking up slugs or snails, a non toxic way to kill them, is to put cheap beer in a bucket and drop them in. Works great,

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A good non-toxic way -If I could just keep my hubby from drinking the beer in the bucket!![]

[hikatz]

Thanks, that made me smile. Trust me, my husband's not happy, when we use the beer method, want's me to use my scotch instead, But we need to follow the directions that they specify![}]

[ArtM]

Borrow someone's ducks or chickens? Ducks and chickens love snails.

ArtM

[gtill]

I didn't see any effect on the big ones from chickens! and they're on all islands!

[ArtM]

OK, scratch the chickens, which are apparently intimidated[], but add geese.

Just a thought!

ArtM

[hikatz]

On craigslist today, there's an ad for pair of pilgrim geese, Hal&Gabby Free to a good home 808-430-8967 Pahoa

[james weatherford]

We'll try the tin-on-the-ground-with-bait-underneath method, but, across two acres, it'll be spotty.
Also, the coffee grounds around the bottom of plants sounds worth a try.

Slugs we get -- the little nasty toxic ones that even chickens know to leave alone and the slimy flat ones that chickens love to eat.
Chickens won't touch the Giant Snails, except for eggs in cracked ones.

Mostly just wanted to confirm how widespread the snails are and if there were any ideas. Thanks.

Maybe if I drank a beer with the snails and explained how they need to just get on out of my garden and not show their slimy faces around here again?



James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park

[Carolann R]

We have them really bad here too. What we did was stripped old copper wire (which was a donation from a Punawebber you all know and love) and put coils of it around the bottoms of our papaya, lilikoi fence, and other plants that they seem to love. It works GREAT!

Carrie

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