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Instead of using salt to control snail populations, consider other, more humane and environmentally friendly options. These may include physical barriers (such as copper tape or crushed eggshells), traps (using beer or bait), or encouraging natural predators like birds and beetles to feed on them. You can also handpick snails and relocate them to a safer place away from your garden or home.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Why Do Snails Die from Salt? You might have noticed that snails and slugs tend to meet an untimely end when they come into contact with salt. This occurrence may have piqued your curiosity, leaving you to wonder why salt is so deadly to these small creatures. Understanding the science behind this phenomenon will not…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":5,"label":"Snails"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/allourcreatures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/snail-with-salt-800x420.png",800,420,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Frank Kane","author_link":"https:\/\/allourcreatures.com\/author\/frank-kane\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":5,"name":"Snails","slug":"snails","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Snail Care and Health: Tips and advice on how to keep your snails healthy, including information on diet, habitat setup, humidity, and common health concerns.","parent":0,"count":79,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":5,"category_count":79,"category_description":"Snail Care and Health: Tips and advice on how to keep your snails healthy, including information on diet, habitat setup, humidity, and common health concerns.","cat_name":"Snails","category_nicename":"snails","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allourcreatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allourcreatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allourcreatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allourcreatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allourcreatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8822"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/allourcreatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11131,"href":"https:\/\/allourcreatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822\/revisions\/11131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allourcreatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allourcreatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allourcreatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allourcreatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}