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We just need to add a mollusk treatment!

The beetles are the mollusc treatment.

OP is making a joke: the solution to too many pesticides is even more pesticides.

copper kills invertebrates (it's in a range of fishtank infection treatments, doesn't kill fish but will kill snails and crabs)

Copper kills funghi too, and that's a problem as funghi are important element of healthy soil.