Are slugs (slugs) poisonous? How to destroy it?

Slug, commonly known as slug, is a mollusk that looks like a shellless snail with wet mucus on its surface and dark black, dark gray, yellowish white or grayish red on its surface. So, are slugs poisonous? How to destroy it?

Are slugs poisonous?

Slugs are non-toxic.

1. Slug is the general name of the slug family. When the adult is straight, the body length is 30mm 60mm and the width 4mm 6mm; the body surface is dark black, dark gray, yellow-white or grayish red, soft, smooth and without shell, with colorless mucus; 2 pairs of antennae, dark black, the lower pair is shorter, about 1 mm, called front antennae, sensory effect, the upper pair is about 4 mm long, called posterior antennae, the end has eyes.

2. Slugs spend the winter as adults or larvae under the wet soil of crop roots, and do harm to a large number of activities in the fields from May to July. The temperature rises in summer and weakens, and after the autumn climate is cool, slugs do harm again; they are afraid of light and are active at night. It starts to go out in the evening, reaches its peak at 10-11:00 in the evening, and sneaks into the soil or hiding place one after another before early in the morning.

3. Slug is a kind of harmful animal with complex food habits and large food intake. It eats widely, feeding on holes in the leaves of grape, or non-staple food on its fruit. It mainly eats taro, bread tree, Finch, paulownia, chrysanthemum, vegetables, mushroom bulbs, mushrooms and other plants, fungi and their fruits; it has strong hunger tolerance and can not eat under poor or poor conditions.

4. Although the slug is non-toxic, its body surface is moist and slime, which looks disgusting; it is a pest, but it can be used as medicine, salty and cold, and has the effects of clearing away heat and expelling wind, detumescence and detoxification, breaking phlegm and dysmenorrhea, and treating stroke, muscle and pulse clonus, epilepsy, wheezing, throat arthralgia, pharynx swelling, carbuncle swelling, erysipelas, amenorrhea, syndrome, centipede bite and so on.

Second, how to eliminate slugs?

Slugs are pests, so to eliminate them, here are several ways you can try.

Method one, salt, sugar, natural enemy elimination method: sprinkle a little salt or sugar on the slug, it will die because of the lack of water, or introduce natural enemies such as chickens, ducks and geese to eat the slugs as much as possible.

Method 2. The method of food lure and elimination: add milk, beer or corn flour to the glass bottle, leave the mouth of the bottle outside, bury it in a place frequented by slugs, induce it to drill in, and then let natural enemies destroy it.

Method 3. Elimination of high temperature and strong light: slugs are afraid of high temperature and strong light, so they can be covered with plastic film to make them die due to temperature stress and lack of food sources, or increase heat or light sources. improve plant physiological activity and photosynthesis intensity to prevent and cure.

Method 4. Drug eradication method: mixing medicine in seeds can reduce the harm of slugs; spraying crops can control it; fumigation with poison in the greenhouse can kill slugs on the ground and underground at once; in the period of high incidence of slug damage, use poison bait and powder to control.

Method 5, raw ginger powder, lime, aluminum sulfate, plant ash elimination method: slug infested places sprinkle raw ginger powder, lime, plant ash, aluminum sulfate, you can kill it.

Method 6. Plant odor driving method: plant mint, onion, ginger, garlic, chicory and so on around the plant. The smell emitted by these plants can dispel most slugs and block it from approaching vegetables.

Method 7. Copper wire driving method: wrap a thin circle of copper wire around the root of the plant. The slug does not like the weak electromagnetic field emitted by the copper wire and will walk away.

Conclusion: slug is non-toxic, but a little disgusting, it is a pest, but it can be used as medicine, it has the effects of clearing heat and dispelling wind, detumescence and detoxification, and breaking phlegm and channel, because it is a pest. This paper introduces several methods to eliminate it. I hope it will be useful to everyone.