Slugs and snails in mounts

hehe. Well, the beer would be nice. I am sure they would like that.

I use a combination of things to control slugs. Sluggo pellets which I try to keep sprinkled on stuff. I also use the liquid deadline, I give everything a drench then let things dry.

 

I second the Sluggo recommendation. Haven't used Deadline, though.

 

liquid Deadline is the best, you can drip it as you see fit and the attractant lures them F wads in for a last meal. you can put it on the mount where there are open spaces and they will find it.

then they just stop eating and DIE or i help speed up the process as such :

 

"Does anyone here have a tried and true way of killing slugs and snails that are in the moss of mounts?"

Mesurol, if you can get your hands on it. I think there are commercially available metaldehyde sprays, too.

 

I never had a problem with slugs/snails and mounts but a mount can be laid flat and bait used, I would imagine.

 

DE doesn't look very good for a bit, but it does kill snails and slugs. There's also a
granular called variously Qbane Que-bane...something like that with metaldehyde that does a great job.

 

Yes, with Liquid Deadline you pop the top and it has a spout and you can direct / squirt it where you want it to go. Pellets just roll off usually sooner than later, unless there is bark or something to wedge them into.

 

DAMN...this morning I found the first slug every eating one of my bolbo seedlings

Looks like I will be searching for some DEADLINE soon, any suggestions were to find it?

 

I second the recommendation of Mesurol. I posted a whole thing on my attempts to fight snails over on OSF. You could search there if you're interested.

If you're talking about BIG snails, as opposed to "bush snails," Deadline will work great. It's all we use in our landscape biz. Deadline will not work on bush snails, as they are not attracted to the bait. A liquid drench of Deadline, as I described in my OSF thread, did not work for me.

With all that said, you can get Deadline at your local agriculture or nursery supply warehouse.

 

i don't now nor do i hope to ever have a Bush snail problemo so for our big brown Euro snails and slimey slugs Deadline works just fine.

Home Depot carries the liquid.

 

I've not found that bush snails do damage to orchids. They're unsightly, but that's really about it.

 

I don't know if I agree with that. I was alerted to MY problem with bush snails after purchasing a Den dichaeoides that started to seriously decline after about a month of bringing it home. My cultural conditions should have been fine for this one, but about half the mount croaked. Upon very close inspection, I found it was infested. Now that my bush snail problem has been knocked down, the plant has recovered nicely.

 

I'm just sayin'... I've only noticed them munching on the powdery algae that grows on some of my leaves. I've only noticed munched orchids from slugs, pillbugs, etc. Never from the bush snails.

 

Yes. Same thing. Sevin gets rid of them.