Slug Takes The Bait

I have slugs in my square foot garden plot. Lots of slugs. I want to trap all the slugs before the lettuce becomes a slug target.


I made a slug trap and baited it with inexpensive beer. I used a small bowl, the size of a desert bowl from a school cafeteria. I dug into the soil a bit so the lip of the bowl was level with the surface of the soil. I then poured beer into the bowl almost to the lip of the bowl.


Below you can see one slug take the bait. It will take some time at the rate of one slug a day. 


I wonder where I can purchase party invitations, slug size.

The image is enlarged at least 3x. The original time lapse between exposures was one every 5sec. The replay speed is 2x.




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Innocent Beauty

The first day of Spring, I found a bird in a large flower pot just outside my sliding glass patio door.  There, on the door at my eye level, were several tiny feathers cemented to the glass.  The innocent little creature must have flown into the door and bounced into the pot. 

 It was dead.

Four weeks later.

The cycle of life goes on.

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