Slugs...

[2sp_]

We get black slugs and brownie coloured slugs in the garden.

I seem to remember that one is a good slug and one is a bad slug (Gastrapods of the Wild West...).

There was a rhyme to remember which was which, but I can't think if it was -

a) if it's brown put it down

or

b) if it's black put it back

Any ideas? (Or am I just havering?)

[boxtops]

I don't believe there is such a thing as a good slug, they all eat your flowers and vegetables :-(

[2sp_]

I thought one of them didn't really do any harm and could just be left?

I'll just lob them all out of the garden. The peacocks eat them.

[boxtops]

Hmmm, the only rhyme I remember like that is the one about flushing the loo...

If it's brown, flush it down
If it's yellow, let it mellow

.....

[2sp_]

lol, boxy!

[shoota]

Surely the outcome of your rhyme is the same?

[2sp_]

No shoota. a) would mean that the black slugs are evil and should be banished, but the brown ones could stay, and b) would be the reverse.

[shoota]

If its brown kill it (put it down)
If its black return it (put it back)
Or am I being blonde?

[jno]

if it's red stomp it dead

if it's white put it to flight

.... wow, it's hard to think of a rhyme for orange.

[2sp_]

I always took the put it down as in put it back down on the ground where you found it. Mostly because I take the put it back (for the black slugs) as put it back where you found it too.

You're not being blonde at all, I'm just very vague!

[shoota]

http://www.slugoff.co.uk/slug-facts/bad-slugs

[2sp_]

Brilliant, shoota!!

The black ones can stay, I'll dispose of any others!

[shoota]

Put them DOWNNNNNN......!

[2sp_]

I can tell when the slug problem is reaching dizzy heights when the peacocks start lurking outside the fence waiting for me to chuck one of the little bleeders over!

[flump1]

As somebody said on this site about snails I believe, 2sp , one is not throwing them over the fence as such.....one is teaching them to fly, Sounds much better !

[2sp_]

OK, flump, I will endeavor to instruct slugs (not the black ones) on the wonder of flight...

How and where they land is entirely out of my control.

[boxtops]

all of them are horrible when you stand on them. We get the great big ones with the orange skirts :-(

[2sp_]

I've not come across orange slugs in skirts before, boxtops.

Must go google for a pic.

[askyourgran]

I get the brown ones with the orange or cream skirts. How do they find their way inside the lid of my wheely bin?

[viv38]

The worse thing is when you stand on one in your bare feet and it sort of hangs there from your foot - ughhhh !

[starone]

I'm for killing all of them, even the name sounds horrible. Snails too. After all they are slugs with shells.