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  • From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fw: slugs as food
  • Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 20:49:33 -0700

My son put out sheets of old corrugated aluminum siding to provide shelter/habitat for garter snakes a couple of years ago and now we have almost no slugs. The snakes need cover and the aluminum sheets give them that, plus warmth. Ironically, the slugs seek out the same areas and get eaten that much faster. The snakes go out from their shelter areas and clean the surrounding zones of other slugs. You get a reduction in slugs the first year, and in the second year they almost completely disappear.
The method works best if there is a water source for the snakes and some brushy cover as well.
-Lon Rombough
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On Aug 1, 2008, at 6:33 PM, Ernest Plutko wrote:

This is a good site. Think slug soup, slug pie, slug meat loaf. I
actually thought about eating slugs but I just couldn't do it.
Probably loaded with parasites and nasties.

---- Original Message ----
From: Hilborn.E@epamail.epa.gov
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Fw: slugs as food
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:55:34 -0400

Here is a site claiming to list edible molluscs.
http://www.manandmollusc.net/molluscan_food_files/molluscan_food_terr
estrial.html

However they make a valid disclaimer at the top about toxins, and of
course thorough cooking is needed to kill pathogens/ parasites.

Bon appetit!



"What about slugs? Are they edible? We eat escargot, a snail carrying
its
shell, so I have started wondering about slugs. I can tell you that
they
are
plentiful in this part of the world right now, with the unusual
overcast

skies and daily downpours we have been having. We find slugs
everywhere.
It
would be pointless to tell you what they are capable of when they are
present in great numbers.
However, if we though of them as a source of easily accessible
protein,
then
it could be seen as a bonus....
Any comments or recipes?

Hélène, zone 4, north of Ottawa"

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