[Sca-cooks] Caffeine and slugs--OT OP

[johnna holloway]

This story was in our morning edition of
the AA News. I looked it up and decided that
at least some members of this list might
find this amusing or even alarming...

The link is:
http://www.nature.com/nsu/020624/020624-8.html

The article starts:

Coffee breaks slugs
Caffeine kills slugs and snails.
27 June 2002 by JOHN WHITFIELD

Humans have a new weapon                                     in the
eternal battle against
slugs and snails--
double espresso.

Slugs and snails hate                                     caffeine,
researchers have
discovered. The chemical                                     could
become an                                     environmentally
acceptable                                     pesticide.

Johnna Holloway  Johnnae llyn Lewis