02-27-2017, 04:27 PM
To add to what hotinhawaii said - you can't get it directly from rats, even by eating them. The form of the worm that infects snails and the one that infects rats (and people) is different, and behaves differently. By eating a rat you would pick up the one intended for a snail (and probably not even an infective one of those, which are shed through the gut and pooped out).
Punatic: it's difficult to completely eliminate the slugs, especially since they spend a lot of time in trees where the bait can't reach. One of the problems with most of the baits is that they dissolve and become ineffective in the rain or heavy dew, which is most of the time in Puna. There's supposed to be a new one available, Ferrox, that stays good when it gets wet, but I don't know if it's available here yet.
Punatic: it's difficult to completely eliminate the slugs, especially since they spend a lot of time in trees where the bait can't reach. One of the problems with most of the baits is that they dissolve and become ineffective in the rain or heavy dew, which is most of the time in Puna. There's supposed to be a new one available, Ferrox, that stays good when it gets wet, but I don't know if it's available here yet.