So correct me if I’m wrong, if water gets on the side of the container, it will connect the strips and the battery runs out pretty fast?
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I would think. Or if it, you know, rains.
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This is exactly what an undercover snail would say.
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Cool… now do Japanese beetles.
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It looks great. It’s a very well edited video. Unfortunately, Youtube has a big credibility problem. There are all sorts of do-it-yourself videos that are completely bogus, and that includes some from manufacturers.
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And lets not forget copper’s germicidal properties!
/s
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Yeah, same here. They devastate my carrots and lettuce but the tomatoes are always fine.
With how hard I work to restore native plants and animals (including insect habitat) across my garden, I just accept the loss in produce. Or use beer traps in the Spring for a few weeks. That seems to work pretty well, actually.
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Thing is, that attracts slugs and snails from all around, so what you need to do, is convince your neighbour to set up beer traps…
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Sort of like the Japanese beetle traps. That work best when you buy them for your neighbors!
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My japanese beetle control method. I had maybe one or two last year.
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Beer traps worked for me, but I stopped using them when I found a mouse had fallen in and drowned.
Felt terrible about that.
Once saw a tiny mouse chew his way through the casing of a broad bean, he carted it off like a giant rucksack. Good for him. Not gonna miss one bean.
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One of my favourite snail “facts” is the Snail Telegraph.
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Perhaps put a wire mesh mouse-excluder over the beer trap. 1 cm wire mesh would do.
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Yeah, I was about to say that I have definitely seen copper snail barriers for sale at my local garden centre, batteries not included or necessary
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I’m surprised there isn’t some kind of current limiter, a resistor, in that circuit. Some commenters here did mention risk of a short and fire, indeed. Does the snail need the entire current to get that shock? Probably not, but apparently, more research needs to be done and published at YouTube University to answer these questions.
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I think the snail is self limiting. The zap causes a contraction or reflexive action that breaks the circuit.
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Unfortunately a bit late for the mouse, I simply don’t put traps for any creature anymore.
We’ll all just share the food from now on.
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sure. i’d share a spare bean or pepper or two. what i don’t like is when the snails eat a hole in every damn jalapeno and bellpepper! that’s not sharing, that’s piggish on part pf the snails!
No Quarter!
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