You, for sure, had to see more than once strange creatures that resemble a snail, but without a shell. It's bare slugs . Eating slugs foliage and fruits of garden and vegetable plants, so they often face owners of household plots.
With the advent of slugs, a number of questions appear. For example, how do these creatures get into the house and are they dangerous to humans? They enter the house, which is why they are also called domestic slugs, together with the harvested crop. Their presence is noticeable on the brilliant tracks of frozen mucus. Eating crops of vegetables, fruits or cereals stored for storage, leaving products of their vital activity on them, they contribute to the development of rot. And will a rotting product be stored for a long time? No. Here you and the obvious harm from slugs. In addition, these gastropods, creeping on plants, suffer various diseases (blight, powdery mildew), which also significantly harms the crop.
They do not represent a person for direct danger, although they serve as a source of helminth infection of domestic animals. Of course, the question of how to get rid of slugs in the house is quite legitimate.
Slugs at home - how to deal with them?
From mechanical methods of struggle it is recommended to scatter in the inter-row and around growing plants crushed wood bark, shells or eggshell, needles. This will create an impassable barrier for slugs. And also the use of special traps is no less effective. For adherents of ecological farming, you can recommend various bitter tinctures (pepper or mustard) as a remedy for slugs, as well as infusion of garlic.
Of the chemicals used drugs based on methaldehyde, and from biological drugs - a parasitic nematode (microorganisms are diluted with water and watered her planting). For the destruction of slugs in the storage areas of the harvest, they are treated by gassing with ground sulfur.