"Slugs can be caught with beer. Put a couple inches of beer in a shallow flat pan along side of the pepper plant. During the early snail hours they will be lured to the beer and die" - http://answers.yahoo.com/questio...
That's a good question. It is said that the snails in the Bay Area are of the French escargot variety. They completely demolished my son's green pepper plant. :( - τorƍue