Mainly to disprove your assertion that Dr. Bill is the only one who reads this forum (
) ~ I grew up in (and am currently back visiting) prime slug territory in Oregon. When faced with any variety of creepy-crawly thing, I'm not the type to recoil in fear or disgust. Slugs are a different story ~ there are few things grosser to me than seeing someone pick up a slug with bare hands, particularly if it's one of those 10-inch mamas.
The necessary helpful hint 'round these parts, however, is that they will die if exposed to sufficient quantities of either salt or beer. Sprinkling table salt on top of a slug will cause it to shrivel up like the Wicked Witch of the East under Dorothy's house ~ they'll actively avoid it, so it doesn't work in a bait capacity at all. For that, it takes a shallow pan of cheap beer. They'll crawl right in and drink themselves to death.
Who knew?
