NationStates Jolt Archive

No deaths but they're trying to eliminate our food supply and starve us out. I say we nuke them. We could send in the French but they'ld get confused between eating them and surrendering. :)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061108/ap_on_fe_st/snail_invasion_1

Barbados fights giant snail invasion

By ROSEANN PILE, Associated Press Writer Wed Nov 8, 2:41 PM ET

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Ravenous giant snails that emerge from the ground by night are thriving on the tropical island of Barbados, destroying crops and prompting calls for the government to eliminate them.
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A nocturnal survey last weekend found hundreds of thousands of African snails — which are often about the size of a human hand — swarming the central parish of St. George, the country's agricultural heartland, where farmers complained of damage to sugar cane, bananas, papayas and other crops.

"We saw snails riding on each other's backs and moving in clusters," said David Walrond, chairman of the local emergency response office that organized 60 volunteers for the expedition. "You're just crunching the shells as you're walking through."

Someone advise the French, I understand they eat the nasty lil things.

"...crunching the shells as you're walking through."

*shivers*

They should sprinkle some Iron Phosphate on the ground.

They should sprinkle some Iron Phosphate on the ground.
I prefer diatomaceous earth. For some reason, it just makes them react alot weirder.

(unable to resist the obvious)

"I've always found snails revolting."

I prefer diatomaceous earth. For some reason, it just makes them react alot weirder.

DE works? I didn't know that.

DE works? I didn't know that.

yeah. One of the few things I learned from having to clean my pools filter every year. For whatever reason, we got the industrial form (I think my uncles got it free from work), so it had really high silica content (very sharp edges). It cut the little suckers open while sucking all the liquid out.

Nighttime salt patrols!

Someone advise the French, I understand they eat the nasty lil things.

Finaly, a war just right for them.

yeah. One of the few things I learned from having to clean my pools filter every year. For whatever reason, we got the industrial form (I think my uncles got it free from work), so it had really high silica content (very sharp edges). It cut the little suckers open while sucking all the liquid out.

Awesome. *must find snails and DE*

Doesn't just salt work, or is that only slugs?

They should sprinkle some Iron Phosphate on the ground.

Pouring plain good old sodium chloryde on snails is fun... but the crops won't grow on "salted" ground.

Doesn't just salt work, or is that only slugs?

I doubt it's much good for the agriculture they're trying to protect. ;)

EDIT - ahh, beaten to it. :p