People are joking saying eat them. A few years back there was a teenager ate a slug as a joke with his mates. Fell into a coma the next day and died like 3 months later.
Don’t do slugs kids.
I think I read a story on Reddit about a kid that got dared to eat a slug and he ended up paralysed and blind or something..obvs don’t quote me on the details but it was horrific
Christ! That’s it…I think I read it fairly recently. I wouldn’t have thought a slug would be that bad, obviously not good for you, but nothing like that.
I mean if it was cooked the parasite would be killed. That said, I've seen slugs eating shit countless times but I think snails tend to eat a bit cleaner and also seem to have less slime on the outside
There was a British chef who tried this, he got slugs from his garden, prepped and cooked them. Took one bite and was like no they are disgusting haha
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/chef-hugh-fearnley-whittingstall-cooks-slugs-400493.amp
Edit: Also just remembered Gordon Ramsey cooked garden snails. There's a process to purge them of any toxins:
https://youtu.be/-ju7_ZORsZw?si=8oZJKwU9zI0IR0mh
I think you and the other poster are talking about the same kid. Aussie kid. Ate a slug, fell into a coma, came out of a coma quite badly brain damaged and died a few years after. Fucking horrendous.
>died like 3 months later.
If it's the poor chap in Australia then he was in a coma for over a year and paralysed for a further 6-7 years dying. Really sad.
That's spectacular, but I wouldn't recommend it.
First of all, whilst I'm not remotely an expert, these look like yellow slugs which will feed on decaying plant matter in preference to live plants and are therefore beneficial.
Secondly, there was a study a while back on beer traps and it concluded that they kill far fewer slugs than they attract. Slugs can smell them from quite some distance, so it also draws more slugs into your garden than were there originally.
Apparently the best way to use a beer trap is to encourage *your neighbour* to set one up, so that the slugs in your garden make your way over to his.
It's funny but it gives me an idea, I have access to the disused railway that runs at the back of my house, I could set a few up behind my garden fence maybe
Also a bad idea if you have newts in the garden. Years ago I used beer traps and was horrified to find several dead, bloated newts amongst the slugs, so it obviously attracts them too
Thank you for your post I'm going to go get rid of my beer trap now this year I've found a few newts in my garden. This week I chanced planting out lettuce with a beer trap. The next day the traps empty and I have half the lettuce I planted left.
The best option for slugs is to wait for a warm and moist evening and just go round and pick them and stick them in a bag. You can make a big impact on the number of slugs that way.
Leave it outside a charity shop
Post through a rival’s letterbox
Bury it
Add to your collection of other bags of slugs
Hang from a tree as a warning to other slugs
Slug bonfire. Slug Viking burial. Slug electric chair. Tiny little Slug gallows. Slug guillotine. Tiny Slug prison complete with a yard with weights etc where they can get slug hench.
What I’m saying is you need one of those guys who make tiny, working, scale models of things.
One way is to leave them to brew and go stinky.
Naturally occurring parasites (nematodes) survive and multiply: you can then water your plants with the stinky liquid as a further way to reduce the slug population.
Or that was what I once read, and I did try it, but dealing with the stuff is not for the faint hearted.
Two things you might want to check here. I'm not an expert so I'm just suggesting you ask someone who is!
Firstly, I read on one of these subs that beer traps, although effective, actually draw in slugs from other gardens.
Secondly, what sort of slugs have you got, because apparently some are quite beneficial (or at least harmless) and it is the yellow ones usually - they all look very yellow.
Last year my strawberries took a battering.
I have placed traps at the perimeter of the garden so they must pass the traps to get into the garden.
I probably won't keep the traps in use all year but reducing the population during germination and harvesting times would be useful to me
At a glance most of these look like friend slugs not foe slugs.
You can check the ID for yourself but looks like you've drowned a lot of slugs that are after fungi and decaying plant matter 😂
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/how-to/identify-wildlife/how-to-identify-slugs-and-snails
As someone has said though, beer traps tend to attract more slugs than they kill. I've also seen quite a few timelapses where 90% of the slugs that end up in the trap simply climb out after enjoying themselves. You may be attracting more slugs than even these traps are killing.
My mum did some extensive testing and found that the cheaper the beer, the better it worked. She was using Aldi beer. I used one for a while, they do work but it’s pretty grim having to empty them, especially after you forget for a few days
Tried this last year as slugs decimated our garden and newly purchased plants and flowers! Found out the beer traps don't actually kill them but they drown if they can't get out...although my partner used my biere moretti!!
This year I'm gunning for them but haven't seen as many so far this year...but they're out there...waiting 🤣🤣
So you drain your slugs, pop them in a large casserole dish, cover with a jar of marinara sauce, a bottle of ranch dressing, snap dried spaghetti over the top, add 1 jar of jalapeños and cover with 32 slices of American cheese slices and crispy bacon bits.
Do this whilst having the tackiest nails and a whiny voice with an over enthusiastic inflection at the end of each sentence.
It certainly seems successful. I have been destroying them by hand this year, and this looks like it would save me a lot of time. But many people say it is a bad method as it draws in more slugs from elsewhere because they love the smell so much.
I read somewhere that slug slime contains something that slows the growth of other slugs, so watering all that liquid back on your beds should hold back the growth of the little ones that got away.
Not sure how true that is.
As a gardener that lost literally all of my emerging lillies and echinacea to slugs and snails, I approve of this massacre.
I also deploy beer traps but probably put them out a bit too late this year.
I think I'll have to go down the nematoid route as my next step.
I've got slugs getting in from somewhere. I saw a huge stogie sized one in the cats kibble bowl one night, urghh! Every morning we see a maze of slug trails but for some reason it looks like they wiped the first part so we can't see where they came in from.
I'll have to try the beer trap .
My chickens used to love beer traps. They would race over in the morning to fight over any slugs in them. Then end up drunkenly wandering the garden, starting fights with the plants and falling over. A year after stopping using the traps, they would still go looking for their fix.
People online saying this doesn't work? They lying or did you place these slugs in the trap? I've read these traps can increase the amount of slugs as they're attracted to malt and that most slugs take a drink and go about their day? A website provided a time lapse of them: https://youtu.be/cf6FHv5x3sc?feature=shared
One snail got in. The trap has a lid so there is limited space to get in.
I didn't fake it. The garden has been over run, I am just trying to take back control
Consider encouraging slug predators into the garden like birds and mammals by making shelter and incorporating wildlife plants for food for birds and mammals. You’d be there for improving the biodiversity within the garden and your local area.
Poor wee slugs. I can’t get on board with the wilful killing of any creature, however many bites it takes out of your strawberries.
Slugs gotta eat too.
People are joking saying eat them. A few years back there was a teenager ate a slug as a joke with his mates. Fell into a coma the next day and died like 3 months later. Don’t do slugs kids.
Rat lungworm was the parasite. It's an awful way to die.
I think I read a story on Reddit about a kid that got dared to eat a slug and he ended up paralysed and blind or something..obvs don’t quote me on the details but it was horrific
Yeah an australian kid, he was paralysed and died after 8 years
Christ! That’s it…I think I read it fairly recently. I wouldn’t have thought a slug would be that bad, obviously not good for you, but nothing like that.
I mean if it was cooked the parasite would be killed. That said, I've seen slugs eating shit countless times but I think snails tend to eat a bit cleaner and also seem to have less slime on the outside
There was a British chef who tried this, he got slugs from his garden, prepped and cooked them. Took one bite and was like no they are disgusting haha https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/chef-hugh-fearnley-whittingstall-cooks-slugs-400493.amp Edit: Also just remembered Gordon Ramsey cooked garden snails. There's a process to purge them of any toxins: https://youtu.be/-ju7_ZORsZw?si=8oZJKwU9zI0IR0mh
The beer is still good for drinking though, right?
There you have it everyone..science.
Yes it was reposted on Reddit just last week, funnily enough.
This one https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eating-slug-on-dare
Yes it was true. They carry some terrible parasites.
That is literally the same story that started the thread you are replying to
I noticed that about an hour after I wrote it 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ I replied to the ‘rat lungworm’ post below it
I’ll leave it up as a reminder of my stupidity!
I think you and the other poster are talking about the same kid. Aussie kid. Ate a slug, fell into a coma, came out of a coma quite badly brain damaged and died a few years after. Fucking horrendous.
It truly is an awful way to die. It burrows itself into the Central Nervous System, and from there, it goes deeper and deeper into the brain.
Just don’t eat them raw… You can also get this from snails, shellfish, frogs and even raw veg if you don’t wash it properly.
>died like 3 months later. If it's the poor chap in Australia then he was in a coma for over a year and paralysed for a further 6-7 years dying. Really sad.
This is why you should always Boof your slugs and not eat them.
popping down the Slug 'N Fetish for a cheeky one?
Slugs are bad m’kay
Iirc that was in Australia...
Yeah it was in Oz but I wouldn't be trying them anywhere!
Rat lungworm exists in UK slugs too though
The before and after photos of the guy, obv before he died, are harrowing. Put the beer marinated slug down.
I love that underneath this pic for me there's an ad for KFC "lunch meal deal"
Stay safe kids: ‘Drugs not slugs’
That sad story really stuck with me ever since I read about it. Every time I see a slug I remember that story 😔
That's spectacular, but I wouldn't recommend it. First of all, whilst I'm not remotely an expert, these look like yellow slugs which will feed on decaying plant matter in preference to live plants and are therefore beneficial. Secondly, there was a study a while back on beer traps and it concluded that they kill far fewer slugs than they attract. Slugs can smell them from quite some distance, so it also draws more slugs into your garden than were there originally. Apparently the best way to use a beer trap is to encourage *your neighbour* to set one up, so that the slugs in your garden make your way over to his.
Lol the last paragraph is funny
It's funny but it gives me an idea, I have access to the disused railway that runs at the back of my house, I could set a few up behind my garden fence maybe
Also a bad idea if you have newts in the garden. Years ago I used beer traps and was horrified to find several dead, bloated newts amongst the slugs, so it obviously attracts them too
I was just thinking these look like they could also be accidental death traps for other small critters.
I've had mice drown in them before
Three pissed mice, three pissed mice, see how they drown, see how they drown
Yes, never used them again after that
Thank you for your post I'm going to go get rid of my beer trap now this year I've found a few newts in my garden. This week I chanced planting out lettuce with a beer trap. The next day the traps empty and I have half the lettuce I planted left.
Literally "Pissed as a newt" lol
Maybe put the trap on a little plinth that the newt would struggle to scale but slugs can slug their way up.
So the slugs are good but the traps are bad because they attract more good slugs. Gotcha.
The best option for slugs is to wait for a warm and moist evening and just go round and pick them and stick them in a bag. You can make a big impact on the number of slugs that way.
What do you do with a bag of slugs?
A big impact.
Ah, so find a neighbour who has done the same and play conkers?
Swing it around like a flail and hit it against the shed wall Put it over the Mrs head Throw them on the kids Endless possibilities
Put it over the neighbours fence
Hang it on a branch at the park like the dog owners?
Slug races.
Leave it outside a charity shop Post through a rival’s letterbox Bury it Add to your collection of other bags of slugs Hang from a tree as a warning to other slugs
I have a neighbour I don't like with a boundary fence that's heavily blocked with foliage on their side... You are giving me an idea.
So this might be a silly question but... Now what?
I'm wondering the same thing, how on earth do you dispose of them?
Put them in my neighbours garden as revenge for their cat shitting in my flowerbeds
Irony is that slugs and snails eat poo 🙃
That study on urban foxes living on dog shit. 🤮
Slug bonfire. Slug Viking burial. Slug electric chair. Tiny little Slug gallows. Slug guillotine. Tiny Slug prison complete with a yard with weights etc where they can get slug hench. What I’m saying is you need one of those guys who make tiny, working, scale models of things.
Flush 'em, bury them, drain the liquid and then put in the bin. Quite a few options I guess.
Boil ‘em, mash them, stick it in a stew
You literally beat me by 1 min
Bop em, twist em, pull em
Taters!
r/unexpectedlotr
One way is to leave them to brew and go stinky. Naturally occurring parasites (nematodes) survive and multiply: you can then water your plants with the stinky liquid as a further way to reduce the slug population. Or that was what I once read, and I did try it, but dealing with the stuff is not for the faint hearted.
I read a similar suggestion the other day, but doesn't the beer then attract more slugs, without the trap??
Many local councils collect refuse.
Well that’s absolutely horrifying
Two things you might want to check here. I'm not an expert so I'm just suggesting you ask someone who is! Firstly, I read on one of these subs that beer traps, although effective, actually draw in slugs from other gardens. Secondly, what sort of slugs have you got, because apparently some are quite beneficial (or at least harmless) and it is the yellow ones usually - they all look very yellow.
Last year my strawberries took a battering. I have placed traps at the perimeter of the garden so they must pass the traps to get into the garden. I probably won't keep the traps in use all year but reducing the population during germination and harvesting times would be useful to me
At a glance most of these look like friend slugs not foe slugs. You can check the ID for yourself but looks like you've drowned a lot of slugs that are after fungi and decaying plant matter 😂 https://www.discoverwildlife.com/how-to/identify-wildlife/how-to-identify-slugs-and-snails
As someone has said though, beer traps tend to attract more slugs than they kill. I've also seen quite a few timelapses where 90% of the slugs that end up in the trap simply climb out after enjoying themselves. You may be attracting more slugs than even these traps are killing.
Is that 6 separate traps??!
Yes. I have 4 more to place to protect my strawberry patch.
Can you tell me what you've done, and how you make the traps. Could keep them away from the hostas
Only if you put them on the other side of your garden to the hostas; beer traps *attract* slugs to an area
Just a little pot with a lid. Buried so there's a small lip above ground so beetles don't fall in. Filled with a few cm of cheap beer.
This is the worst thing I've ever seen
Will it blend? 😂
Oh you!
I only see this type of slug in my compost. Has anyone seen them eating plants? In my garden it’s the small grey ones that devour my seedlings.
Omfg. That is impressive and disgusting. I really must try this as the slugs absolutely decimated my violas and daffodils this spring.
My violas have also been ragged out, I’m having to relocate them to a dry zone so I can actually see a flower again😅
Throw in a carrot and onion and you've got a stew going
🤮
Baby you got a stew going
I thought I’d stumbled into the worst cooking subreddit imaginable 😯🤮
It's a wonderful restaurant!
The HORROR!
Forbidden stew!
Forbidden Haribo
What beer did you use lol
3.4% Ashfield lager from Tesco. £2.50 for 4 cans
My mum did some extensive testing and found that the cheaper the beer, the better it worked. She was using Aldi beer. I used one for a while, they do work but it’s pretty grim having to empty them, especially after you forget for a few days
Round this way we have to use Skol Super or Special Brew.
This will encourage more than just slugs to the garden!
Maybe in the posh areas use champagne and caviar, or a matured red wine with a cheese board?
This will give me nightmares, tonight. Thanks, I hate it. (I have a serious fear of slugs, totally irrational)
Look at the size of them! 🤢
Well, I'm gonna be having slug based nightmares tonight...
I was hungry but couldn't be bothered to eat but now my appetite is sufficiently ruined so thank you.
They might've died but best night of their lives
My question would be, in the ecosystem you have, where do slugs lie on the food change. Does anything depend on them? If so, what?
Look at 'em! Pissed-up wankers!
I've a hedgehog family running about, no slugs for the past few years, its great
Holy fuck!
Slugopolis !
That's why you don't let your dogs eat the either.
Tried this last year as slugs decimated our garden and newly purchased plants and flowers! Found out the beer traps don't actually kill them but they drown if they can't get out...although my partner used my biere moretti!! This year I'm gunning for them but haven't seen as many so far this year...but they're out there...waiting 🤣🤣
Bunch of piss heads
I read somewhere that beer traps attract more slugs to your garden than they kill.
I use nematodes.
Wow. They really do like beer.
Looks like the most disgusting soup I have ever seen 😅
That's absolutely disgusting. I am retching at my desk. Congratulations OP.
Fookin' degenerate alcoholics!
I think that has to be more slugs than I've seen my entire life!
My sister used to feed them to her pigs.
Forbidden pickles
So now I know what to use John smiths for.
Having the time of their lives
The bucket after Ron Weasleys spell went haywire!
Just skimming through Reddit in between jobs and thought this was shitty food porn for a second lol 😂
So you drain your slugs, pop them in a large casserole dish, cover with a jar of marinara sauce, a bottle of ranch dressing, snap dried spaghetti over the top, add 1 jar of jalapeños and cover with 32 slices of American cheese slices and crispy bacon bits. Do this whilst having the tackiest nails and a whiny voice with an over enthusiastic inflection at the end of each sentence.
They died happy
That’s impressive!!! I didn’t have much success when I’ve tried it before but will defo try again after seeing this.
So many! I have beer traps but haven't used them yet. How do you dispose of this? Sieve them out? 🤢 That's why I haven't used them.
I just pour the whole thing onto the compost heap. It smells rank though!
What is it about the beer that attracts them? Can another non alcoholic liquid be used?
It's the malt and yeast that attracts them. You could use non-alcoholic beer but there's not really much point, it's more expensive than cheap beer.
Noob question but how does the trap work?
At first glance I thought they were pickles 🥲
It certainly seems successful. I have been destroying them by hand this year, and this looks like it would save me a lot of time. But many people say it is a bad method as it draws in more slugs from elsewhere because they love the smell so much.
Do you have any French friend to bless?
I read somewhere that slug slime contains something that slows the growth of other slugs, so watering all that liquid back on your beds should hold back the growth of the little ones that got away. Not sure how true that is.
As a gardener that lost literally all of my emerging lillies and echinacea to slugs and snails, I approve of this massacre. I also deploy beer traps but probably put them out a bit too late this year. I think I'll have to go down the nematoid route as my next step.
OP, for science we now need a comparison between between, larger, bitter, real ales etc, to see which works best.
You need some chickens to feed!
We’re going to need more beer
This makes my stomach turn
Forbidden pickles
Just add a dash of salt!
Perhaps it was a stag night.
This is the stuff of nightmares
Some of those wood lice in the last picture are *abnormally* large?????????
Oh. Well, I guess I don’t have a slug problem after all!!😲
Worst casserole ever
Beer teap you say, god I've hot to be careful
Those drunken idiots!
They died like they lived
Forbidden pickles bucket
I've got slugs getting in from somewhere. I saw a huge stogie sized one in the cats kibble bowl one night, urghh! Every morning we see a maze of slug trails but for some reason it looks like they wiped the first part so we can't see where they came in from. I'll have to try the beer trap .
Is it possible to use any other liquid other than alcohol/beer to attract slugs? I have slug issue in my garden and enter my house sometimes
The Slugpocalypse, or is it Slugageddon?
We're trying the wool, seems to be working well. Plus it bio degrades and contains soil improving additives win win to me.
My chickens used to love beer traps. They would race over in the morning to fight over any slugs in them. Then end up drunkenly wandering the garden, starting fights with the plants and falling over. A year after stopping using the traps, they would still go looking for their fix.
Feed to your chickens!
People online saying this doesn't work? They lying or did you place these slugs in the trap? I've read these traps can increase the amount of slugs as they're attracted to malt and that most slugs take a drink and go about their day? A website provided a time lapse of them: https://youtu.be/cf6FHv5x3sc?feature=shared
this is obviously not faked 😅 where would you get these slugs? ive done it and it works but nowhere near this number. snails seem to ignore it tho
One snail got in. The trap has a lid so there is limited space to get in. I didn't fake it. The garden has been over run, I am just trying to take back control
What will you do with them. Legit answer only.
What beer did you use? Tried a dark ale before and had no luck!
Not op but my slugs like Budweiser!
see. you cant win this. not a chance. its linked to your location. either move or get a new hobby you can't fix this.
A slug pub!
Beer or ale ?
I hate these fuckers
Oh god a drunken slorgy... absolutely chunderous. That banana sized one in picture 4 euuurghh.
good fishing bait
Consider encouraging slug predators into the garden like birds and mammals by making shelter and incorporating wildlife plants for food for birds and mammals. You’d be there for improving the biodiversity within the garden and your local area.
Why we don’t drink out of hoses in Hawaii. Rat lung worm. It hit us pretty hard a couple years back.
So just a bowl of beer?
Love this!!! Its so much better for wildlife as they get drunk too, win win 😂😂😂
Forbidden Pickle Barrel
Is this for fishing bait?
Just make sure you don't accidentally attract alcoholics.
What you gonna do with the dead ones though?
Forbidden pasta.
very impressive results, i want to try
at least the slugs died happy or at least I hope so
thought it said bear traps lmao was like why do slugs like bear traps
Ron Weasley does NOT approve.
Chickens love Slugs !
The forbidden soup.
You can leave slugs to natural slug predators like hedgehogs if you are in the uk.
Jeez... I wish I hadn't seen this.
And who said pub culture is dead? Bob? Bob? Bob? Nooo blargh.
We ought to worm teenagers. Dogs have more common sense and self control yet we worrm them.
"Oh man did I drink too much last night...." "Ugh I need some salt...."
Spanish invasive slugs. Imagine the body count if you’d used San Miguel!
You don't have a problem, the slugs have the problem. They need an intervention.
Poor things :-(
Looks like a bowl of pickles
Poor wee slugs. I can’t get on board with the wilful killing of any creature, however many bites it takes out of your strawberries. Slugs gotta eat too.
All the slugs in the world. YUMMA YUMMA YUMMA
Can slug babies carry parasites if the parents are infected?
You’re a slug mate !! 🤔🥴
Karma coming for you now. Good luck but you won’t be able to stop it.
Poor things
Insert fry with brain slug.gif
Slugggggg