pwhittle

slimey little barstewards are invading my house. Trails all over the carpet - getting a bit further every night. Found a massive one on the worktop last night.
There's a few places they could get, when the CH and water pipes come through the floor etc, so it's not simple to keep them out.

Is there anything available to scare the buggers off?

Tam the bam

Salt!

A friend of mine returning from a night out stood on one of them big black ones, it burst and it's guts flew up and stuck to her leg. My mind went astray as she described how she carefully removed her tights and jumped in to the shower!

PeteBrant

Jesus christ.

Only you could get the horn over a slug exploding on a birds leg.

Graz

Ewww, there does seem to be a few that get into our garage, plenty of gaps for them to get through in there, but not in the house

Evil things eating all the plants and vegetables we grow. Spent last Sunday afternoon going round the garden and gathering them up in a pot, then poured salt all over them They didn't seem to like that

Missus got me this trap that you sink into the ground and put a bit of beer in it, had about 7-8 dead ones in there within a day or two

alcazar

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As kids, we used to make "slug-guns", that fired slugs at your "enemy". I had a double barrelled one that would fire the little pink ones or the big black ones.

Yesterday I moved some bricks in my garden, and spent ages removing snails, woodlice, slugs with leopard spots, and humungous spiders from the holes through the bricks.

Alcazar

pwhittle

we tried beer, but being indoors they would have to climb in to the container. Mind you it was cheap nasty stuff!

TelBoy

More in my garden this year than ever before, but definitely less snails.

Scoobychick

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Get some ducks! Seriously, ducks eat snails and slugs They work a lot better than pellets and are fun to watch too

ChrisGrant

Here ya go!

Slugs

Check out Non Chem

Night Time by Torch Light.........

THE NIGHT SPEAR!

NotoriousREV

It's the credit crunch. Fewer slugs can afford to get on the property market and thus are unable to become snails

davegtt

Who is suggesting wasting beer on Slugs? Are you people mad?

pwhittle

22p / tin

davegtt

I dont care, times are hard. 22p a tin sounds like premium lager at the minute

ChrisGrant

Where the **** can you get Lager for 22p?

PeteBrant

And more importnanty, why would you buy lager that cots 22p a tin?

J4CKO

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My evening routine involves, at some point going outside so empty the bin into the wheelie bin or some other recycling related task, it is at this point I realise that the time to put shoes on would be well spent.....


Treading on a slug is bad, there is an initial resistance as its body bears your weight but by the time you have realised its too late, too much weight and it pops, jetting out its internal organs, you then feel very queasy and wonder whether just cutting the foot off would be more appropriate as washing it reveals a Teflon like slime on your foot that just doesnt wash off.

You know its bad, treading on a Slug when you hope that its Dog **** you just trod on, however the horrible truth is soon realise by the signature step, slide, burst routine.

I remember when I was a kid, despite spendign much more time in undergrowth, fields and gardens you rarely saw a Slug, and if you did find one there was the matchstick in the blowhole trick, the Ready Salted Slug and if near Bonfire Night and Standard banger were available you could create Gastropod Suicide Bombers, many a time I went home, happy but lightly singed peppered with half cooked Slug remnants.

We have a problem with them, when the kids were babies and we had to go and get a bottle for them, used to go down and it was crawling with the *******, I cut the entry routes down and put loads of Pellets everywhere, got to be careful though when there are kids about.

How is it, anything you pick up in the garden, even if its a 5 metre square barbecue cover you will find the bit with a Slug on ?

Why do Dogs decide to wear them like a Broch ?

When the Dog was alive, her bowl would be teaming with them if left on the floor, she was blind, I think she got a taste for them as it could be teaming, she went out to finish her tea and just wolfed the lot, prhpas they are like Oysters for Dogs ?

Graz

It was homebrew, but yeah your right seems a shame At least the slugs die happy

Wurzel

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In the mountain bike park down the raod there is a crack that comes off a jump, this track is always covered in slugs so naturally they get run over and squashed, the only problem is slugs are carniverous so the more you kill the more come out and feast on the remains, so more get run over then more come to the party, last time I went there were literally thousands of them put in an appearance in the 2 hours we were there.

Scoobychick

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