Good old beer is good for lots of stuff.

Even if you don’t like beer – you might want to have some handy....

Do you like beer? So do most critters. Beer works like a charm on slugs. Just put some in dishes around the garden and they’ll slither right in and die happy. Here are a few more uses for good old beer:


• Leave a can of it on the kitchen counter, cover the top with plastic wrap with a few holes – and you’ve got a fruit fly trap.

• If bees or wasps are ruining your picnic or barbeque – put some cups of beer around the perimeter to keep them at bay.

• You can catch mice with beer. Put a small amount in a bucket with a ramp for happy hour access. They’ll take the beer bait – but won’t be able to get out of the bucket. Don’t put too much beer in there if you prefer a drunken mouse to a drowned mouse.

If you’ve got some flat beer, but don’t have a critter problem – go ahead and feed it to your plants. The sugars in beer can give them a boost. Beer can also perk up a brown patch of grass by killing off fungi and pests.