Slugs!!!

Richard Dower

:mad: slimey gits!...i seriously loathe the feckers!, slithering about....for some reason they seems to hold a party conference in my bathroom....dunno how the buggers get in!

They've slimed my walls and floor, i normally put them in tissue paper and fire them into the bin, but on occasions when i see a huge one he gets thrown into the fire, they sizzle away and then a.....pop!

I see NO function whatsoever for these slimeballs other then to creep me out and spread goo all over the place, in fact....i hate spiders and insects full stop!

Summer is good and bad as the blighters are everywhere but it does provide for multiple killing sprees

You're boasting about killing these poor things just because they wandered into your bathroom? And how you did it?

eh yeah ok

Sonics2k

Gratz on killing something the size of your thumb I guess.

FearDark

Arent they just homeless snails? Another pointless creature. Op does your head resemble a f**king orange by any chance?

Richard Dower

bluewolf wrote: »

You're boasting about killing these poor things just because they wandered into your bathroom? And how you did it?

eh yeah ok

:rolleyes: seriously?....moral outrage for insects?, typical Boards response....next i'll be lambasted for being evil and i should burn in hell..... :rolleyes:

Pompey Magnus

Richard Dower wrote: »

I see NO function whatsoever for these slimeballs other then to creep me out and spread goo all over the place

They are food for owls, everyone loves owls.

Richard Dower

Richard Dower wrote: »

:rolleyes: seriously?....moral outrage for insects?, typical Boards response....next i'll be lambasted for being evil and i should burn in hell..... :rolleyes:

It's not a typical boards response, it's a typical bluewolf response.
Personally I find starting a thread boasting about throwing insects into a fire and going on a killing spree to be somewhat disturbing. But what do I know, I'm just the pc brigade :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Einhard

They're not on the patch on the humble old snail, or shellykabookey as they're called around these parts. What a deadly name. Shellykabookey, shellykabookey, stick out your dirty horn!! Ah, here's to innocent childhood!

Also, OP, stop pouring salt on them. Snails are people too ya know.

ejmaztec

Audrey won't be at all happy about this.

westendgirlie

Why are they in your bathroom? Thought slugs liked gardens ???

Richard Dower

westendgirlie wrote: »

Why are they in your bathroom? Thought slugs liked gardens ???

I must have a damp issue, or they slither up and the drain pipes, or maybe they are doing a "suicide by cop" routine?....depressed slugs

westendgirlie

ejmaztec wrote: »

Audrey won't be at all happy about this.

Maybe she'll call the guards

antodeco

Something tells me its actually jizz on the walls. Place a few slugs in the bathroom and you can blame their "slime". Perfect masturbatory crime!

Richard Dower

westendgirlie wrote: »

Maybe she'll call the guards

Who's Audrey?

antodeco

Richard Dower wrote: »

I must have a damp issue,

That's what she said!

westendgirlie

Methinks it Ms Hepburn. I always read her posts in an Eliza Doolittle voice!

kelle

I'm with you OP - I HATE the things! I lived in a very old house that was infested with them and I nearly cracked up, I'd dream of 6-foot long ones wrapped around me :eek:
It was only when my parents built a new house and we moved in that my slug nightmare was over!

I still wince when I see them on the road or in the garden, and they are plentiful at the moment.

bluewolf wrote: »

You're boasting about killing these poor things just because they wandered into your bathroom? And how you did it?

eh yeah ok

In France they suffer a similar fate and end up on dinner plates. What's the difference?

kelle

kelle wrote: »

In France they suffer a similar fate and end up on dinner plates. What's the difference?

I must have missed my supportive posts on the "i love when france kills slugs and eat them" thread :pac:

antodeco

How are they getting in??

W.Shakes-Beer

Ah man, thats just bad form killing the poor little sluggies. Could you not at least fire them out a window?

KittyeeTrix

As much as I'm not a fan of slugs I'd find it difficult to throw them in a fire:(

Merch

They revolt me, especially slugs, not as bothered about snails but cant say I like them, make me feel like retching thinking about them, been in a few places where they could get in.
spiders, ants, wasps all do a job,Im sure slugs/snails do too, not sure what though. Maybe we encourage their growth by how we have altered the landscape?
They are either getting in through a crack somewhere or via a drain pipe that isnt enclosed at the house end, so maybe a washing machine drain that has the U inverted into it, you can block that off with a drain fitting that takes a washing machine drain and secure it better with a jubilee clip or a tie wrap.

good few in the garden, come out at night, need to get rid of them in the garden, found some horrible green ones under a wooden barrel type plant pot and what looks like eggs, not sure whats the best way without using a poison, would like if a hedgehog moved in but as in an enclosed garden in the burbs probably not likely.
Read about copper strips for plant pots and salt but that would get washed away.

think I'd flush them,

Ditch

OP; Get a mist sprayer and knock up a salt saturate solution. Pish that along the skirting creases of the bathroom.

Water quickly evaporates to leave an invisible layer of salt crystals. Slugs idea of walking on hot coals.

I'm a 'rat catcher'. The buggers get into my rat boxes and slither all over the bait. Rats won't go near it :mad: Costs me a lot! But, the saline solution trick works, even in plastic boxes

TheBody

Flipping hate the buggers. Loads of them about my house this year for some reason.

Pique

Read an ad ages ago selling Nematodes (I think) that came in stasis or summat in the form of pellets. They're like microscopic worms that are the natural killers of slugs.
You dissolve the pellets in water, spread it using a watering can or whatever and they infect your slugs and kill em off naturally.
Safe around pets and kids too apparently.

PseudoFamous

I don't mind the slugs, I hate the gargantuan hairy brown spiders who make a squelching noise when you squish them. They've only appeared around here in the last two years, and I hate the sight of them. And they can run like Usain Bolt, so it's near impossible to catch them. Bastards.

chin_grin

I know this is a waste of good drink. But if you put beer in a bowl out the back they will flock to it. Seriously try it. It's disgusting. Slug soup. <retch>.

galwayrush

I was expecting this to be about Bertie Ahern.:D

Irish Guitarist

That's the problem with humans. We think if another species can't be eaten or doesn't look cute then it's worthless. We think it's perfectly acceptable to destroy the habitats of animals but as soon as they get into our homes we're outraged.

Humans are a bigger nuisance to the rest of the species on this planet than any of them are to us.

MadameGascar

Can't understand this, I was feeding fig rolls to the slugs in my garden a few days ago! Its amazing because you can hear them chewing (its freakishly loud!). Cute little things.

Merch

chin_grin wrote: »

I know this is a waste of good drink. But if you put beer in a bowl out the back they will flock to it. Seriously try it. It's disgusting. Slug soup. <retch>.

Maybe a real dirt cheap beer, I didnt think they flocked to it, I just thought if you put a plant pot on an old plate and poured some beer in they couldnt pass it or it killed them if they absorbed it? same as salt though, rain washes it away.
Wondering if you can get a substance that is legal/harmless to people and pets or plants, some kind of salt that wont wash away but that you can spread around (especially nooks near potted plants and plant beds) but that fooks them up.

I thought snails/slugs purpose was to eat fungus but cant find that, might be other insects job.Reasonably sure slugs/snails can carry harmful parasites that are not good for people/animals if you come into contact with them unknowingly.

What are those god awful green camo ones, they are the worst looking.
Dont thrushes eat them? seen few thrushes around here but they are gone now, some eat the seed I put out, but never seen them have a go at a snail, not even sure if hedgehogs will eat all snail/slugs.

Merch

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

That's the problem with humans. We think if another species can't be eaten or doesn't look cute then it's worthless. We think it's perfectly acceptable to destroy the habitats of animals but as soon as they get into our homes we're outraged.

Humans are a bigger nuisance to the rest of the species on this planet than any of them are to us.

As i said, in certain words, and as I have said of other creatures, they have a purpose otherwise they wouldnt be here. Possibly we are doing something that encourages/assists them in over propagating.
I'd prefer to limit that then spread poison around or introduce an existing natural predator, like a hedgehog.

taffyz

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Da Shins Kelly

You're evil and you're gonna burn in hell.

taffyz

how do you work that out then.

Mickeroo

Richard Dower wrote: »

:rolleyes: seriously?....moral outrage for insects?, typical Boards response....next i'll be lambasted for being evil and i should burn in hell..... :rolleyes:

They're not insects.

Eve_Dublin

I think they're little cuties with their little tenticles. Spent ages walking home today trying to avoid the little guys and not crush them. Bless them.