Answer: Sluggo Plus kills more garden insects. Earwigs, cutworms, sow bugs, pill bugs. Sluggo is designed only to target snails and slugs.

Does Sluggo Plus really work?

Sluggo is highly effective against slugs and snails because of its active ingredient, iron phosphate. Your strawberries, vegetables and ornamental plants are effectively protected. Even when it rains, Sluggo remains effective.

Is Sluggo Plus safe for pets?

Sluggo Plus. Monterey Sluggo Plus is snail and slug control at its best. It is a great alternative to traditional baits. Containing iron phosphate, it is safe to use around pets or other wildlife.

Is Sluggo Plus safe for vegetable gardens?

Sluggo Plus can be used around vegetables, fruit trees, citrus, berries, ornamentals, shrubs, flowers, lawns, gardens and in greenhouses to control earwigs, cutworm, sowbugs, pillbugs, crickets, slugs and snails.

Does Sluggo Plus work on pill bugs?

Sluggo Plus contains iron phosphate and spinosad. This product effectively controls and kills slugs, snails, earwigs, sow bugs, pill bugs and cutworms.

How long does Sluggo Plus last?

Each 1 lb container of Sluggo can cover up to 2,000 sq ft. You should reapply every 4 weeks or after heavy rains (not to exceed 3 applications per month).

What is the active ingredient in Sluggo?

This product is a unique blend of an iron phosphate active ingredient, which originates in the soil, combined with slug and snail bait additives. Iron phosphate is also used as an ingredient in fertilizers. The bait, which is not ingested by snails and slugs, will degrade and become a part of the soil.

Does Sluggo contain metaldehyde?

Liquid slug bait, registered for ornamental use only, is metaldehyde in a paste form that is diluted with water and applied as a spray to leaves of landscape plants. It is most effective on young, small slugs as they are reluctant to search far from plants for baits.

What happens if a snail bites you?

A snail bite will feel like a scrape will not penetrate your skin or make you bleed. Snails have thousands of teeth that allow them to bite and chew – up to 25,000 in fact! All the teeth are arranged on the radula, which is a tongue-like band. A snail bite is not poisonous and does not hurt.

Is Sluggo Plus harmful to birds?

Commercial Brands Are Toxic After All

Ironically, I’ve recently learned that in fact, Sluggo and its kin kill earthworms (which metaldehyde baits don’t) and can also make dogs, cats, birds and other critters ill.

Does Sluggo contain spinosad?

OMRI Listed Sluggo Plus kills insects, slugs, and snails. This easy-to-use pellet formula is for outdoor use. It combines iron phosphate and Spinosad, a natural substance that is toxic to a variety of garden pests including slugs, snails, pillbugs, cutworms, sowbugs and earwigs.

Is Sluggo safe for earthworms?

There have been some published studies about molluscicides, including Sluggo, being harmful to earthworms. They can cause loss of weight and potentially mortality when they are consumed.

Is Sluggo safe for organic gardening?

Monterey Sluggo® snail and slug bait is now OMRI (Organic Materials Review Institute) listed for use in organic gardening. Sluggo contains naturally occurring iron and phosphate and is safe to use around pets and wildlife.

Is Sluggo safe for bees?

Registered. I’ll second the Sluggo suggestion. We used to recommend it at the vet clinic for folks that didn’t want to kill their pets with the usual slug/snail baits. It won’t hurt bees at all, or anything else in the yard that isn’t of the gastropod persuasion.