Homemade slug trap working! Beware, gruesome pic attached!

I'd tip the lot down the toilet and replace the beer.

Put them on the compost heap and let them rot and feed the plants?

Be Aware! The longer you leave them the worse the stench gets.

Uggggghhhh! 🤮

An empty grapefruit half works well. They congregate there and don't die... I just put them in garden at the front of the house where there is nothing precious.
I am fed up with snails this year... there were so many of them and they had happily munched all the flowers on my small but usually prolific apple tree. I don't see one apple starting to grow. We removed about 25 of them... they were big and obviously very well fed... I am fed up . I forgot to check as I was unwell. Though very tempted to end their lives I did respect their part in the food chain so again they were removed to the front. I wonder if they have or will find their way back. There seem to be a lot more of them generally this year!

I certainly don’t think you should tip them down the toilet!

It’s definitely not meant for the disposal of slugs!

Slugs down the toilet is as bad as anything else which is not supposed to be there. It's poo, pee and toilet paper only.

I would just empty them in a corner somewhere out of the way to make a sluggy compost heap. Then they will rot and be absolutely disgusting but at least out of sight out of mind. There is nothing toxic there if it's just beer.

I found my kitchen drain overflowing into the yard this morning. It was blocked by snails attracted by scraps of food.

We have used. the beer trap method for years - despatched the little blighters top the compost heap once the jar is full and refill with beer and replace. No more lacey cabbages here

When we had a garden we used the ‘beer trap’. I always thought it seemed kinder somehow than shrivelling them with salt.

I emptied them into a far corner of the garden. If any birds find and eat them though, will they get tipsy? 😗

Well if you empty them in a far corner of your garden they will arrive straight back where you first saw them
The nasty little buggers have eaten my cucumber plants to the ground even though I had cut off plastic tunnels ( bottles over them ) a net across the top and eggshells around the plant and still the buggers got them and ruined them for me

I think they’re well and truly dead, BlueBelle - either from drowning in the beer, or from alcohol poisoning!

But if they weren’t, I know all too well that they’d only be back, that’s why I wonder why e.g. Alan Titchmarsh advises kindly collecting them up and depositing them elsewhere in the garden, where they can’t do any harm! All very well if you’ve got a couple of acres, with room for a pony….

Well done Witzend! It's very satisfying to find a method that works and I'm tempted to try it on my little veggie beds having seen how successful you've been.

If I find any live slugs or snails in my garden I just fling them over the back fence into the woods and hope that there are hedgehogs or birds that will appreciate them! And it keeps my arm muscles active and toned

I would compost them too.

I haven't tried a beer trap for a long time .
It looks very successful .
I ran out of slug pellets yesterday whilst replanting .
I tried some eggshells, wood ash and lavender leaves as a substitute .
And it was successful .
Apparently , rosemary and foxglove leaves work as well .

I got loads of coffee grounds from waitrose (used ones from the free coffee) and built walls around the plants that are most at risk, fingers crossed that'll work!!

They are very active this year, we have lost a few bedding plants, some melon plants and they are making a meal of the hostas. We have bought some cheap beer this morning.

Glad your beertrap was successful I think I ll have to try that does cider work what about larger ? I dont drink beer
Have to start experimenting I m totally fed up with the buxxers went to the allotment to day lost three bean plants four pea plants and a couple of courgette plants Chewed to the ground
I could have cried

Astonishing that anyone would think the toilet is a good place to dispose of slugs. Isn’t there enough publicity about the state of the sewage system, caused by people too lazy to consider what happens beyond the flush?

You can’t fix stupid.

I've only seen one snail so far, and not actually in the garden,
It's quite small, but seems to spend most of its time climbing up my front door, which is a bog standard wooden door, with glass window. There is absolutely nothing edible on the door for any species, so I can only think it must have some illness! I just pick it off the door and throw it down the garden. In a couple of days, it - or its lookalike - arrives near the top of the door again!!

Yes, that's the best plan. I always do that with my slugs

They are coming to you in droves for the funeral feast. The slugs can apparently smell beer or their dead fellow slugs more than 300 meters/yards away. Dig a hole in the soil and tip the concoction into the hole. Rinse out the container and cover the hole with the soil. Christmas time is over for slugs too. What an odd concoction, beer with choc and orange. Very festive indeed

Years ago I did an experiment with big snails. I marked them with a tiny dot of white Tipex (remember that stuff?) and moved them from the back garden to the front. Inside a week, they were nearly all home again in the back garden. I was trying to find out if snails had a homing ability. They do!