Slugs!

[tiggerblue10]

I've had a visitor(s) in my living room over the last few weeks and couldn't figure out where it was coming from. I filled a little hole above the skirting board with kitchen towel but I still kept finding trails on the rug every morning. Then last night I saw the little *** on the rug but didn't see from where it came from. Bearing in mind I have a phobia of such creatures, I managed to get it onto a large box at arms length and flung it in the garden. Didn't see any more trails this morning so hopefully thats the end of it.

As I said, I can't find any holes other than the one I've bunged up with kitchen towel until I get some filler, so where could it/they be coming from?

[boxtops]

We had a couple that came in through the air bricks and up through the space under the floorboards, every now and then I'd find one on the floor (and loads of trails). sprinkle some salt round your kitchen towel, if they get past the paper, they won't cross the salt.

[nannybooby]

have you bought any house plants recently ? They can come int hem .

[Daffy6543]

They squeeze through tiny, tiny gaps. We wake every day to slug trails in the dining room and we have no gaps anywhere other than possibly around the door.
Putting copper tape along the door worked for a couple of days but then they seemed to find a way around it, maybe up the wall and over? so I have given up trying to stop the blighters.

Next week I am going to treat the garden with Nemaslug to hopefully get rid of them before they reach the house :-)

[gness]

You know what's horrid, Tiggs.....when you walk into a room in the dark in your bare feet and the slug you step on squidges up between your toes.....I gave a new look to the Highland Fling.........☻

[boxtops]

Ho yes, gness, I have done that dance with you, many a time. Slug Toe should be a recognised dance step. It's in the same chapter as Half-Mouse Hop.... :-)

[gness]

Little sods hang in there don't they, Boxy....and no way are you going to poke them out with your finger....☺

[patsyann]

Ugh tigger. I have had a nightmare fortnight with slugs in our garden Not little slugs but really huge greeny yellow ones. Started with slime trails near the bird feeders. Then slit open last years growbags and found nests of them been there all winter in the warm..shovelled them up and went to council recycling with old garden waste etc. Every upturned flower pot or under rocks more turned up. Covered everywhere with slug pellets and had huge slimy heaps of dead ones including baby ones. Then opened our garden storage box to get garden swing tables chairs etc out. They were nesting inside the hollow tubes of swing seat and chairs. Slime like diarroea came out when i poked a stick in. So jeyes fluid and the karcher was used. It was like a nightmare and I felt really sick. To date just the odd one turning up now and much smaller. The bigones looked like baby pythons. Never seen any indoors though. got me on the hunt now. LOL.
Pat.

[tiggerblue10]

Salt! That's an idea Boxy. Much better than poisonous pellets with Little Tiggs around.

I don't have any plants Nannyboy, I can't be trusted with them. I have a habit of killing them off :o(

Think I've got some tape somewhere Daffy.

Lol and yuck Gness :o)

[jno]

ooh, salt could be much more dangerous than slug pellets...

http://www.wcrf-uk.org/cancer_prevention/recommendations/salt_and_cancer.php

[tiggerblue10]

Ugh Pat, that's grim!

When I first got Tigger, she used to bring worms into the house and once she bought several into my bedroom and I stepped on one in the middle of the night. I don't have a name for the dance I did but it would be very worthy of £250 off You've Been Framed!

[B00]

You're all very brave!

If I found slugs in my livingroom or indeed any room I go in, i'd have to either burn my house down or move, the thought alone is making me boak.

[albaqwerty]

Boo, yer made of sterner stuff than that.
What would make you really boak is if you stood on a slug in your bare feet and whilst doing 'the squished-slug boogie-woogie' a toe hit something solid and toenail pinged off :-D

[ladybirder]

They come out at night to eat and if you are leaving any food about, such as cat or dog food in their bowls, best remove it. Don't leave food on your work tops overnight because they will climb up to get it. If you cba to wash up before you go to bed at least put your dishes in water in the sink.
I shall be getting Nemaslug as well shortly when the soil warms up a bit more.

[Gromit]

I've put some new plants in pots on the patio last week and have been doing snail and slug watch all week.

Which involves picking them up and launching them.

[albaqwerty]

for the anti-slug brigade:

I ran over one whilst taking my wheelie-bin out this morning.
If it had been wearing a crash-helmet, then it might have stood a chance.

☺

Why can't they eat the weeds in a garden, instead of other plants?

[ladybirder]

No good launching them over the fence to next door. They come back you know! And they are probably doing the same to you:-(

[atalanta]

I used to have an office with a door into a garden. The gap was so narrow that nobody could believe that the slugs who had been leaving their trails had been coming through the gap. However, putting a draught-strip ( in the form of a brush or bristle) did the trick. They obviously had been getting through an almost invisible space under the door,