[cadalot]

Tonight I made two Pop Bottle Slug Traps for my over wintering Bed

1) I cut the top off a POP bottle
2) Marked up little arch openings at third points on the bottle and cut out
3) Cut the bottom off a pop bottle
4) Place the top half over the bottom
5) Using a soldering Iron spot weld the two halves together

Take to the allotment

6) Open top and fill with Beer for Beer Trap
or
7) Open top and put blue pellets of death in - the pellets will stay dry and
    other wildlife can't get at them easily
8 ) Put cap back on
9) Bury in the soil just below the bottom of the opening

Job Done .....
 

[Plot46]

Thanks for the idea Cadalot.. I've been up the lottie most mornings this week and I'm amazed nay mortified at the large number of slugs & snails I've seen, so these traps would be great. I moved some weed cover to a new area and underneath was hundreds & hundreds of snails eggs. 

[cadalot]

I must admit I have no idea what to put on the eggs or how to destroy them, but I have found many as well which is why I intend to make as many of these traps as possible and litter the plot with them and hopefully wipe out lots of slugs over the winter months with dry pellets of death.

Here is a modified version which rather than the arch, has a little porch/canopy to try and keep out the water out.

I have highlighted the edges with permanent marker ink so that people can make out how it's formed.

[Plot46]

Cheers even better...I now have enough bottles to start making them.  I've read somewhere that the birds love
the eggs, but I left the cover of over night thinking that'll give the birds a feed.....next morning still the same not been touched.

[Tenhens]

Hello,

Have just come across this post.

If you go to the garden chat page and go to the post about GW horticultural (I think) there is a video that shows what I think is the same idea.  It's an interesting watch, enjoy!!    Somebody with more IT skills than I  may be along to provide the link!!

[Kristen]

If you go to the garden chat page and go to the post about GW horticultural (I think) there is a video that shows what I think is the same idea.  It's an interesting watch, enjoy!!    Somebody with more IT skills than I  may be along to provide the link!!

This perhaps?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT67dpM2LiY&feature=youtu.be&t=16m18s

[cadalot]

  I posted that link to the video and that was where I got the inspiration for the beer trap and also the dry blue pellets of death. The guy on the video used some kind of desert pots and drilled a hole in the middle for a stick

[Kristen]

I posted that link to the video and that was where I got the inspiration

I wonder if "dark" rather than "transparent" might be important, to encourage slugs to crawl inside?

[cadalot]

They are most active at night and early morning after rain so I'm hoping to snag as many as I can

[cadalot]

OK modification 3

I've cut the tops off then snipped down about 10mm and put the top into the bottom half of the bottle on big ones and in the hole bottom of the small bottles. I then heat up the soldering iron and weld the two sections together around the circumference.

Plan is to loaded with some beer or slug blue pellets of death then to lay them on their side tipped down at the bottom by 15-20mm. Then the theory is the sluggy smells the yeast or blue pellets of death, goes in and plops down and drinks or eats blue pellets then can't get out and goes around and around in circles until he dies or the whole container is put in the rubbish bin

I may use this to catch enough slugs next year to have a go at DIY Nematode production see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardeningequipment/8675592/The-war-on-slugs-starts-at-home.html