... no not @threebikesmcginty , but I see where you're coming from
Quite pretty for a man-eating critter.
Quite pretty for a man-eating critter.
Slimy, creepy, slug...
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Donger
Convoi Exceptionnel
- Location
- Quedgeley, Glos.
We bought some alpine plants from the Malvern Spring Garden Show a couple of years back. Must have cost £25 - £30. Took me a couple of hours to plant them all in our rockery, then I went to bed. Woke up the next morning and they had all disappeared completely -stalks and all. Bleedin' slugs.
I don't have a cat! But then I guess they have short memories.
Are you sure it's not snails? The big slugs round here mainly do the creepy nocturnal non-existent cat-food thing, and it always turns out to be the snails who have reduced all the flowering things to a slimy stump. I haven't really got over the sunflowers in 2012.
Yeah, you're right, it's mini snails usually but the slug pellets kill them too.
The 'organic' ones don't work well enough but I've seen what happens to hedgehogs who eat snails killed by pellets.
I don't have the time or energy to keep filling and emptying beer traps.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
We only recently seem to have developed one that seems to sneak in at night, have a quick (maybe slow), saunter around the hall and kitchen before leaving again. Never yet caught him in the act! Do you think it would be worth putting up a security cam to catch him?
up hill struggle
Well-Known Member
- Location
- newtownards, county down
Do you think it would be worth putting up a security cam to catch him?
be a boring home movie.
moved into a house about 8 years ago and every morning i would come down stairs to find there silver slime trail all over the front hall carpet, i searched all around the door way for hole were they were getting in, gaps in skirting board, nothing but every morning looked out the window of the front door & right up the garden path was slime trail about 3 feet from the door trails started to go in circles.
seriously thought at one point that it was part of a snail race track & that my hall was there spectators gallery.
weird, weird house that was for animal life, had almost nightly visits from foxes, hugh amounts of birds would flock to the front and rear gardens cost me a fortune on bird feed but sat there for hours watching them so didn't mind the money side of things, mice lived in the shed but never ventured into the house ( probably because of our dogs) but those slugs were horrid little blighters, even tried throwing salt over the path in front of the door & quite a thick layer of salt just inside the door thinking it would burn them and they would turn around and race somewhere else but no still the trails would appear every night.
worsted of all was the spiders, every year around october they headed inside, big hairy b#####ds, easily twice as big as any other wild spiders id seen, one night watching ice road truckers one caught my eye running across the front off the fire place, being terrified of spiders i let out a girly squeal jump off the chair remove slipper at lightning speed before squishing it below my slipper ( or so i thought) got some paper towel to mop up its remains lifted the slipper, spider still alive just now pi55ed off at me & the little f####r charges at me i let out the most unmanly scream you have ever heard before hitting the spider a half dozen times by the time im finished bits of it are everywhere.
i don't like spiders!
Dave 123
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire alps
annedonnelly
Girl from the North Country
- Location
- Canonbie
Leopard slug, I think. They eat other slugs so you want to encourage them..... no not @threebikesmcginty , but I see where you're coming from
Quite pretty for a man-eating critter.
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Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
I was lying in the bath yesterday morning when one of them dropped in to join me through the open window. We hadn't even been introduced FFS!
Piemaster
Guru
- Location
- UK City of Culture
When we lived in an outlying village there was never a slug problem but there was a well fed hedgehog family under the shed.
Now back in the city there are loads of slugs and snails in the garden. But not as many as the neighbors have. Heh.
Now back in the city there are loads of slugs and snails in the garden. But not as many as the neighbors have. Heh.
