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Over run by hard shelled snails.

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Adirondack case guy

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Since last fall we have had an unbelievable amount of hard shelled snaols all around us. they climb up on the patio doors at nights, as manny as 50plus on each door. The night before last it rained most of the night.The road infront of our house and a mile up it was covered with millions of the slimey critters. similar to driving along a swamp in the spring when the frogs and toads all congrigate in the road on a rainy night. We talked to the county agent and he said they don't like salt. The town hwy. crew cam down and spread a column of road salt up the sholder of our road. I can't say that it helped anything but the road. I pulled out a root of baby's breth on the edg of my garden, and under it was at least one of them /sq in. as seen in pic.
Anyone know how to eliminate these slymie pests.
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i had the shell-less version here real bad, got a product called BUG_GETTA,..boy did that knock the h*ll out of them,...has metaldacide it,..better check the spelling on that
 
So this snail goes into a used car lot and tells the salesman, "I'll take this car here, but I want you to paint a big letter "S" on both sides....I'll pick it up later."
Th next day the snail is flying down the street, going 60 mph.
This bystander says to his buddy, "Hey! Did you see that S car go?"
 
We had trouble with them here in Otsego County. Our goats were getting sick with a parasite that cannot be transmitted without those little land snails as a host. We got a few guinea hens to get rid of them. The snails disappeared when those hens were here. But . . . keeping those hens around on a permanent basis seems near impossible. They get wander lust, take off and probably get killed somewhere by coyotes, fox, fisher, etc. We had over 20 leave and only returned and she had only one leg when she came back.

If the town came on my road to dump salt, I'd chase them and their salt the heck out of here. We've got enough water wells polluted, trees dead and cars/trucks rusted out as it is with the over use of salt all winter. One of the reasons I like living on a dirt road. No salt in the winter.
 
Salt is detrimental to their health, especially slugs. I have heard if you put out beer in shallow containers, it will attract them and they will drown themselves in it. (Hmmm. maybe that's why they used to call me "snail", and I thought it was because I was slow.) Diatomaceous earth, (as used in swimming pool filters, among other things)makes it difficult for them to crawl as it is very sharp and abrasive. I realize that you can't cover everything with it, but you can put it around plants. etc. Just some thoughts.
 
A product called slug and snail death is a preferred agent of sending them to the promised land. (I also wonder if a copper wire strung 1/2" from an aluminum wire on the ground, would give them electrical fits? Jim
 
We have them here, not as bad.Chickens will eat them.We had a lot of ants on the drive way.2 ducks ate them up.Lime should discourage them and wont make trouble like salt does
 
Do not use the type for swimming pools. You should be able to get DE for use on insects at your feed store.

Insects don't like it and its a good non-chemical repellent. If they crawl through it, it cuts their legs and bodies. Insects' bodily fluids don't coagulate and they literally bleed to death.
 
Do not use the type for swimming pools. You should be able to get DE for use on insects at your feed store.

Insects don't like it and its a good non-chemical repellent. If they crawl through it, it cuts their legs and bodies. Insects' bodily fluids don't coagulate and they literally bleed to death.
 
Those snails can carry PARASITE'S that other
critters can catch, by eating the snails.Ducks
eat snails, Ducks get sick, Eagles find Ducks
easy prey, Eagles get sick ! I've also read of
Horses eating grass, with snails on it, Horses
get some kind of bad worms!
 
J.de. Escargot????????????????? Big bucks dish. Myself, I wouldn't eat such a slimey critter. Now blue Point oysters, Get back .Give me room. Same with Frog legs, Lobster, ocean shrimp. Cant see $30.00 for small lobster tail. LOU.
 
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