Do slugs suck blood?

Slugs, also known as slugs, are a type of mollusk that looks like a small turtle without a shell. Their skin is moist and mucous, and is dark gray-black, dark gray, reddish brown, or bright gray-red. So, are slugs poisonous? How to solve it?

1. Are slugs poisonous?

Slugs are non-toxic.

1. Slug is the general name for animals of the family Slugidae. When the nymph is upright, it is 30-60 mm long and 4-6 mm wide. The epidermis is dark gray-black, dark gray, reddish brown or gray-red, soft, smooth and without shell, with colorless mucus; there are two pairs of antennae, dark gray-black, the lower pair is shorter, about 1 mm, called the front antennae, with sensory function, and the upper pair is about 4 mm long, called the rear antennae, with eyes at the ends.

2. Slugs hibernate as nymphs or larvae in the wet soil at the roots of crops. They are active in large numbers in the fields from May to July. When the weather gets warmer in summer, their activities slow down. When the weather gets cooler in autumn, they are active again. They are afraid of light and are active at night. They start to move out at dusk, reach a peak at 10-11 pm, and then hide in the soil or secret places before dawn.

3. Slugs are harmful animals with a complex diet and a large appetite. They feed on a wide range of things, such as grape leaves, or fruits. They mainly eat taro, breadfruit, fig, taro tree, wedelia, wedelia biflora, vegetables, fungus bulbs, fungi and other plants, bacteria and fruits. They have good hunger tolerance and will not eat when food is scarce or in poor conditions.

4. Although slugs are non-toxic, their skin is moist and mucus-filled, which looks disgusting. Although they are pests, they can be used as medicine. They taste salty and are cold in nature. They have the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying, dispelling wind, reducing swelling and removing toxins, breaking up phlegm and dredging meridians. They can treat stroke, tendon spasm, epilepsy, wheezing, throat paralysis, pharyngeal swelling, carbuncle, erysipelas, liver depression and kidney deficiency, abdominal masses, centipede bites, etc.

2. How to deal with slugs?

Slugs are pests, so to deal with them, you can try the following methods.

Method 1: Salt, sugar, and nemesis solution: Sprinkle a little salt or sugar on the slug, it will die due to the lack of water in the human body, or introduce nemesis such as chickens, ducks, and geese, and let them swallow the slug as much as possible.

Method 2: Food temptation solution: Add milk, wine or cornmeal to the bottle, leave the cork outside, bury it in the place where slugs often appear, induce it to drill in, and then let the nemesis deal with it.

Method 3: High temperature and strong light treatment: Slugs are afraid of high temperature and strong light. They can be covered with plastic film to kill them due to temperature threats and lack of food sources, or they can be prevented by increasing heat sources or light sources, increasing plant physiological specificity and plant photosynthesis intensity.

Method 4: Chemical solution: Mixing medicine in seeds can reduce slug damage; spraying pesticides on crops can prevent it; chronic poison fumigation in the greenhouse can kill slugs on the ground and underground at one time; during the period of frequent slug damage, use poison bait and poison powder for prevention.

Method 5: Ginger powder, lime powder, aluminum sulfate, and grass ash solution: Sprinkle ginger powder, lime powder, grass ash, and aluminum sulfate in the area where slugs appear to kill them.

Method 6: Plant odor repellent method: Plant mint, onion, garlic, chicory, etc. around the main stem. The smell released by these plants can drive away most slugs and prevent them from approaching vegetables and fruits.

Method seven, copper wire repelling method: Wrap a circle of thin copper wire around the flower of the plant. Slugs hate the weak magnetic field released by the copper wire and will stay away.

Summary: Slugs are non-toxic, just a little disgusting. They are insect pests, but they can be used as medicine. They have the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying, dispelling wind, reducing swelling and removing toxins, breaking up phlegm and dredging meridians. Because they are insect pests, this article introduces in detail several ways to deal with them, and I hope it will be useful to everyone.