Rarely something effective to buy as slug pellets from Neudorff. Just as our newly planted magnolia has the opportunity to grow. We thought at first it would be birds that have eroded the fresh buds of our magnolia, NO .. it was disgusting slugs. Many opinions I read in the Internet forums of beer traps via snail fences, etc. but effectively is certainly beginning to collect the bugs and to do. Pain-free is sure to cut them, I have only once managed (terrible), it is easier to collect them in a bucket of salt water. Then sprinkle abundantly repeatedly slug pellets. Only once did I have a dead snail found. Otherwise, these seem actually to die under the earth. Unfortunately, time and again that there, but only a few. Way you get them, I never think :( That's just the nature !!!