What are slugs and how to eliminate them

1. What is

Slug is a pest, a general term for animals of the family Slugidae, a mollusk with a relatively smooth appearance and no shell covering its body. When the body is stretched out, its length is about 30-60 mm. The body color is sometimes dark black or dark gray, and sometimes yellow-white or gray-red, with mucus distributed. Although slugs are non-toxic, they are harmful to plants. They are omnivorous animals and the damage is more serious from May to July each year. They will bite the flowers, leaves, and rhizomes of plants, causing damage to the flowers and leaves, and leaving white marks on the leaves, resulting in poor ornamental value. The rhizomes are damaged, affecting the transport function, and causing the plants to wither.

2. How to eliminate

1. After finding slugs, you can sprinkle some salt or sugar on them. This will cause a large amount of water in their bodies to evaporate, leading to death from dehydration, just like melting into water.

2. Observe their movement routes and sprinkle lime, wood ash, ginger powder, and aluminum sulfate in places where they are often seen, which can also kill them.

3. At night, you can put a bottle of beer to attract slugs and kill them the next day.

4. You can also use natural enemies to eliminate them, such as chickens, ducks, geese, etc., but avoid biting the leaves of the plants.