{"id":223,"date":"2008-07-06T01:26:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T08:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/223"},"modified":"2008-07-06T02:20:41","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T09:20:41","slug":"slug-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/slug-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Slug Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, those little slugs I was finding a few months ago have become really BIG slugs. They are actually kind of cool looking, but also rather disgusting\u00c2\u00a0 – and do a lot of damage in the garden. They have to go.<\/p>\n

I’ve tried beer, which did lure a bunch of them to their deaths, but was pretty gross to dispose of.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve used a slug poison that really works, but I don’t like using it because I think it could kill the frogs I like to have around. I’m also using “Sluggo” pellants but can’t tell if it’s doing much of anything….<\/p>\n

So I have also resorted to a nightly hunt in the garden. Around 10pm, I wander out with a flashlight and look for slime trails – and usually find at least one big slug each night.<\/p>\n

Here is last night’s prize….\u00c2\u00a0 (image is actual size)<\/em><\/p>\n

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I liked his leopard spots (many of them are just dark brown or a sickly pale green) and I like his funky antennae. He’s making his way around the hand shovel I used to scoop him up. (Don’t pick slugs up with your hands – their icky slime takes forever to wash off!). <\/em>After our photo session, I put him in a plastic bag, tied the knot and stuck him in the trash. Poor slug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, those little slugs I was finding a few months ago have become really BIG slugs. They are actually kind of cool looking, but also rather disgusting\u00c2\u00a0 – and do a lot of damage in the garden. They have to go. I’ve tried beer, which did lure a bunch of them to their deaths, but … Continue reading Slug Hunt<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}