Black Gumbo

The ammonia and water tactics mentioned in the prior post must be working. My son and I hunted slugs over three nights and killed over 300 of the nasty critters. Some were huge and had they made their way to the garden plots there would surely have been trouble. Last night we reloaded the spray bottle, grabbed the flashlight and headed out for a fourth night of carnage. What did we find? Only one brave slug. Either it is working and the population has been greatly reduced or the windy night was keeping them down. We will return tonight to see how the battle fares.

Update: They sent reinforcements. 220 of them to be exact. We went out today after all the rain and dispatched more tonight than any other single night. Wow. We ought to have been measuring in pounds o' slug rather than numbers. Now realizing that all this time there have been over 500 slugs crawling around my back yard is pretty gross. I wonder when we will see a genuine decline in numbers? Surely there can't be thousands of them? Well, if there are, we will continue shooting them with ammonia water. Its gratifying!