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I stepped on one the other week. Barefoot. In my bedroom.
There are no photos as I was too busy screaming.
Are they attacted to beer like snails? if so leave a dish of beer and let them drown themselves, Salt works but they turn to orange sludge which is horrible to clean up.
We had slugs in my old kitchen, my ex used to walk in to get a drink in the night and stand on them in bare feet, she really hated that, I felt bad that a creatures death could bring me such joy.
good thinking,
I'm trying to encourage spiders to get a genetic memory which will instill in them an instinctive fear of
entering my flat.
I'm doing this through a course of eugenics, any spider of poor enough of a constitution to enter my flat, gets introduced to the full weight of a yellow pages.
I prefer to catch the spider, scare it and release it, then it ccan warn its friends, breed and warn its kids to, generations of Spiders that avoid my patch of earth.
Steve, you're a man after my own heart. I have similar (although very old memories) about having to get bees out of rooms for my ex. Surprisingly enough, im the one allergic to them..
Small spiders annoy me, but bloody huge spiders are great. I encourage those. Salt will leave a mess, but it's more for satisfaction than anything else. And as for using beer, PAH! A bowl of beer wouldn't last 20 seconds near me.
I shall be investigating alternate methods today. There shall be updates in the future.
Train a mouse to hunt with a harpoon. Then you'll need a cat with a pistol to get rid of the mouse.
The cat can be removed by a dog sniper. After that you're on your own.
eugh. i hate slugs. at least if snails get in you can pick them up by their shell.
I know an old woman who maybe able to help, she is in hospital having a horse removed, but when she is better I am sure she will sort you right out
You can always use copper - plate or foil. It gives slugs and snails a mild electric shock and is a good deterant. The problem is you would need to know where they are getting in from else it could be come costly.
Beer traps do work too.
We used to have them in my old flat. They'd leave slick trails of goop all around the house at night and be gone by morning. We found a much-boiled one in our kettle one day. God knows how many slug brews we'd imbibed. I still feel faintly ill at the thought of it.
There was an earwig in my room yesterday. Didn't bother me. I just let it scurry past and go about its business.
Slugs would mess up the carpet. That's not polite.
I have, so far, found 3 slugs in my flat. One in the kitchen, one in the bathroom and one in the hall. How do they get in? In house plants that have been left in the rain? I brush them up with dustpan and brush, into toilet. I have now put salt down all over. I intend to sweep it into the grout of the floor tiles. Ugh, I loath slugs aand also wood lice which also come in now and then. Angy
They are masters of disguise. Had any salesmen knock on your door recently?
Horse Chestnuts deter most crawly beasties...for slugs you need a night sight and cocktail-stick harpoons.
last week i found a slug in my room in the basement...I screamed my head off. then i was brave enough to pick it up with a cotton ball and took outside. last night, the first thing i saw was the trail of shiny stuff, then i saw it...another effing slug. I picked it up with a rag and put it outside. this morning...u guessed it, another trail leading to under my bed. and bingo, another slug. I can't bring myself to go under my bed because i'm afrain i'm going to see thousands of them. I'm gonna cry. I'm afraid to sleep at night because I'm afraid they will feel inclined to share my comfortable queen sized therapeutic mattress. HELP!!!!
If your bed has copper legs you are laughing, as the slugs will be shocked if they attempt to climb up it. Otherwise, you could set up a salt perimeter, then follow any slimy trails back to the point of entry, and block it up. Smite them hard!
I just found one in my BED! No word of a lie, it was foul, I don't know how it got here!
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So I've never seen slugs in my house. Always had spiders, those tiny sugar (piss) ants. Always had both in my bedroom. But recently I've been seeing what I decided is slug trails all around my bed! But, no one I showed agreed. (My boyfriend and my uncle ) My boyfriend thought it was glitter, stupid.. My uncle insisted it was hair or fuzz from my dogs toys.
I still searched my room, but found nothing. So I just decide to sprinkle salt all over. But I kept seeing trails after! They weren't slimy, I have carpet and am assuming they dried up. That's why I was okay with ignoring it.
Until tonight! I found a fucking slug on my pillow!! After telling everyone for weeks, them talking shit. I am not happy to say, told you so. But now, I don't know what to do! Obviously, I had my brother flush it down the toilet after waking up my household screaming. Threw alllll of my bedding in the hallway as I'm screaming and crying like a maniac. I plan on taking every single thing and piece of furiniture out of my bedroom tomorrow and searching again, but where the hell did it come from? What if I can't find the source and stop it? I cannot keep poison in my bedroom. Or beer, because of ants. HELP ME.
Love these things that recur because of a search, We used to catch them in the garden by putting down some half sphere of orange peel but I suppose that would just mean moreants too
We have ones that somehow squeeze into the kitchen at night and eat the peelings waiting to go to compost.