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Cougar - Member

... horrible slimy little bastids that they are, they seem to love my kitchen. This time of year I'm removing a couple from the sink most nights, and in the morning the room looks like a scene from Ghostbusters.

Over the time, I've gone through my own bodyweight in Saxa; tried slug pellets in the summer which, whilst not making any difference to the slug population, meant I was picking dead birds out of my yard for a couple of days.

I've kinda put up with this for a while, but I figured it was time to bring out the big guns and, uh, ask for advice on a mountain-biking forum.

So, any suggestions as to how I can get rid of these feckers once and for all?

Posted 1 year ago #
Filthy - Member

find out where they are getting in.... fill holes with expanding foam

Posted 1 year ago #
Cougar - Member

I would if I knew that...!

Posted 1 year ago #
brakes - Member

Posted 1 year ago #
Cougar - Member

(-:

There's more than sufficent fire in my kitchen already, I reckon.

Posted 1 year ago #
elaine anne - Member

put a trail of salt at the back door !!!!! they HATE SALT !!!!!!

Posted 1 year ago #
Cougar - Member

Yeah. I'm wondering actually is circling the kitchen with salt outside might be a good idea. I sloshed some round the sink yesterday, but the dozy buggers just committed slugicide in it.

Posted 1 year ago #
ernie_lynch - Member

Cougar - Member

I would if I knew that...!

Don't they leave a trail then ?

It sounds to me like you've got yourself some right crafty slugs there mate..........covering up their tracks and that.

I'd give up if I were you.........admit defeat and move into a new house.

Posted 1 year ago #
Cougar - Member

It's not quite that simple. It's not like they travel in straight lines leaving little breadcrumb trails. What trails there are criss-cross and dry out to an extent where it's impossible to tell where they start and end, and they mostly seem to be around the sink which is surrounded by wall. Short of taking a crowbar to the cupboards, I don't know where they're getting in.

Posted 1 year ago #
Margin Walker - Member

Had a bad problem with slugs once in a rented house.

We had black ones getting in from outside and these brown/clear ones that never saw daylight....rank.

Sorry to say but ended up ripping out cupboards and floorboards to sort the problem.

Under the floorboards looked like a scene out of a horror but saw where they were getting in and sorted it.

Posted 1 year ago #
joolsburger - Member

Under the skirting via an airbrick is the likely entry point - fill the airbrick holes with wire wool, worked for me. If they are in the sink area maybe entering via any cracks around piping fill those too.

Posted 1 year ago #
RealMan - Member

Get a pet hedgehog?

Posted 1 year ago #
carlos - Member

Probably not much help till you find out how/where they're getting in, but they do not like copper, my old man has it along the flag/wall joint. We're not talking copper tubing, it's some sort of metalic copper tape. Apparently it's to do with the slime they secreat (sp) reacting on the copper

Posted 1 year ago #
simonfbarnes - Member

There's usually one in my bath/shower (which is in the basement). I ignore them. They don't like the hot water

Here's a question: do you avoid them on the trail ? I do:)

Posted 1 year ago #
epicyclo - Member

But why are they coming in? What have you got in your kitchen that attracts them?

A food source?

Or a big fat sexy lady slug wafting out the pheromones?

Yup, I try not to kill them on the trail (or anything else for that matter)

Posted 1 year ago #
djglover - Member

I heard on the radio the other day about an experiment where they took snails out of a garden and numbered them with tipex, then released them a mile away. The vast majority of snails found their way back in two days

Posted 1 year ago #
simonfbarnes - Member

The vast majority of snails found their way back in two days

a huge business opportunity for homing-snail messaging

Posted 1 year ago #
Ambrose - Member

Quicker than Royal Mail too.

Anyway- have you thought about nematodes to treat the problem. Pricey- but maybe worth it.

http://www.nemasysinfo.com/

Posted 1 year ago #
trail_rat - Member

ive been informed by the missus we have this issue in our house.....rented house but i will go looking for obvious holes first ......

Posted 1 year ago #
CaptJon - Member

A thick line of salt around areas you think they are getting in will help a lot.

Posted 1 year ago #
Cougar - Member

do you avoid them on the trail

I was once gardening at my ex's house, felt splashed on my face and thought it'd started raining; looked up at the blue sky, looked down and realised with horror that I'd just strimmed through a slug.

Posted 1 year ago #
Cougar - Member

What have you got in your kitchen that attracts them?

Given that it's a kitchen, food would be likely.

Posted 1 year ago #
Cougar - Member

Wait a minute,

Brown ones are indoor slugs? Does that mean I've got a 'nest' or something somewhere?

Swearwords.

Posted 1 year ago #
ernie_lynch - Member

Brown ones are indoor slugs?

They are commonly known as "House Slugs"........they live behind your shirting boards.

They are particularly fond of cheese and beer. You can use beer as an effective bait to drown them in.

In winter, when it gets a little nippy outside, Field Slugs will sometimes get attracted to the warmth of a house. But they soon leave again when the sun comes out. The best way to keep Field Slugs out of your house is to turn the central heating down.

Posted 1 year ago #
jonah tonto - Member

the really massive leopard spotted ones are carnivorous and eat all the other slugs. . .find one and leave it in the affected area

Posted 1 year ago #
bassspine - Member

catch a few and let them drown in water in a jar, they decay and get eaten by nematodes which multiply in there, use the gross slug tea as nematode death juice on the worms. (Doesn't work on our infestation, but it's a popular theory)

Here's a question: do you avoid them on the trail ? I do:)
on the cycle path after rain I play 'bunnyhop the snails and squish the slugs' 10 points for each correct hop/squish

Posted 1 year ago #
Margin Walker - Member

djglover - Member
I heard on the radio the other day about an experiment where they took snails out of a garden and numbered them with tipex, then released them a mile away. The vast majority of snails found their way back in two days

.....thats piss !

Posted 1 year ago #
nickc - Member

Sloth is mugged by a bunch of snails. he gets interviewed by the police who ask him if he recognised any of his assailants. "I dunno", he replies, "it all happened so quickly..."

Posted 1 year ago #
ernie_lynch - Member

thats piss !

Indeed. Everyone knows that as far a snails are concerned, "wherever I rest my shell, that's my home".

There is no need for a snail to walk a mile to get home.

Posted 1 year ago #
gonefishin - Member

djglover - Member
I heard on the radio the other day about an experiment where they took snails out of a garden and numbered them with tipex, then released them a mile away. The vast majority of snails found their way back in two days

.....thats piss !

Actually there is eveidnece for homing instinct in snails. It's not a mile, but the effect is still there apparently.

Posted 1 year ago #
Cougar - Member

Oh,

What did the slug say to the snail?

"Big Issue?"

Posted 1 year ago #
molgrips - Member

Lol@quality snail related jokes

Btw, my parents swear by the nematode thing. It's not chemical warfare, it's not even biological warfare, it's like.. well humans haven't even come up with anything this even to do to each other yet. Imagine air-dropping millions of tiny worms that'd burrow into your enemies and eat them alive..

Grim? Yes. But these are slugs, and the deserve it.

Posted 1 year ago #
ononeorange - Member

Vile things! Salt's too good for 'em!

I'm going to investigate those nematode things, just want to make sure it doesn't wreak havoc on another unexpected part of the eco-system in the garden (eg kills all the bears or something).

Posted 1 year ago #
Admiralable - Member

Get a pet hedgehog?

African Pygmy Hedgehog's are cute and cuddly animals. Mrs Admiralable wants one

Posted 1 year ago #
philconsequence - Member

want to know phil's s(lug)olution?!

no? well here goes anyway:

fill the house with expanding foam
dig a moat and fill it with salt
dress up like a really massive leopard spotted one, stand on the (newly built of course) drawbridge holding up a set of bombers

i promise that no slug will set foot in your house again if you follow the steps listed above.

Posted 1 year ago #