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

I would if I knew that...!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Get a pet hedgehog?

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

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:)

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)

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

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

a huge business opportunity for homing-snail messaging 🙂

Quicker than Royal Mail too.

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

http://www.nemasysinfo.com/

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

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

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.

What have you got in your kitchen that attracts them?

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

Wait a minute,

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

Swearwords.

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.

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

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:)

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 ! 🙂

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..."

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.

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 !

[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11306681 ]Actually there is eveidnece for homing instinct in snails. It's not a mile, but the effect is still there apparently.[/url]

Oh,

What did the slug say to the snail?

"Big Issue?"

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.

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).

Get a pet hedgehog?

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

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.

I thought I had problems, but your slugs have feet?!

Cougar - Member

I thought I had problems, but your slugs have feet?!

Yup, my slugs have feet too. And rather large feet at that ..... as seen in this diagram :

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So basically Cougar, your slugs are disabled/amputee/cripples......but you still can't deal with them 😕

Don't be such a softee and kick their asses.

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molgrips - Member

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

Agreed. Whenever I used to find one in the kitchen I used to sling it out in the garden. But then I became convinced that the crafty ****ers just simply came straight back in. Now I flush them down the bog. Don't like doing it, but just I remind myself that they are slimy low-lifes and therefore deserve it. Probably.

I have more respect for snails though. I always apologise if I accidentally step on one on garden path. Too late I know - but it's the thought that counts.

[url= http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=slug+traps&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=H86cTKiJI4vQ4gaArOmuDQ&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&ved=0CCAQ_AU ]Slug Traps[/url]

First time I set these I caught about 20 of the buggers. Didn't stand on another one barefooted for ages after that.

Don't cats eat them too?

Don't cats eat them too?

Slugs get round the problem of being extremely slow [b][i]and[/i][/b] of not having a shell, by producing a mucus which is highly distasteful to would-be predators, although some have evolved to overcome this.

On the plus side, their mucus apparently makes an excellent axle-grease lube :

[url= http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:n21cqLD4XrsJ:www.museumstuff.com/learn/topics/Grease_%28lubricant%29::sub::History+slugs+grease+to+lubricate+wooden+axle-trees+or+carts&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a ]Black slugs Arion ater were used as axle-grease to lubricate wooden axle-trees or carts in Sweden[/url]