When Slugs Attack!
The cats I can live with. They sit on my windowsill, lick their chops, and give me the evil eye. When I’m not looking they slink across the living room, slide through the bedroom, and pour out the window into the back garden.
No problem.
But the slugs I can definitely do without. And it looks like a biblical plague of the slithery blighters has descended on my flat.
They leave slimy sluggy tracks across the floor; they try (unsuccessfully, the fools!) to eat my shoes; they pop up in the most unexpected places and make me retch.
It’s a full-on X-rated slug fest round my gaff with delinquent gastropods waving their mocking antennae at me like football hooligans flicking the V.
I’ve had various suggestions. Put on a big pair of boots and play God. But that sounds messy. Scatter slug pellets and/or salt in all directions and watch ‘em writhe. But that’s a bit grim.
More humane folks have suggested saucers of beer.
Now I quite like the idea of pissed slugs breathing their last in a pool of Best Bitter (”yer ma bes mate, you are!”) but what if word gets round? Free beer!
Cue mega bouts of binge drinking, slug lock-ins, very slow slimy fights over that cutie with the translucent skin …
What eats slugs, asks a friend? I check Wikipedia. Snakes, apparently. And toads. Hmmm. Big, ugly, hissy, and hoppy ain’t no solution to small, slow, slimy and harmless.
I’m at a loss, dear readers, so if any of you out there have the answer let me know.
In the meantime, I take comfort in the knowledge that I’m not alone … The Times reports today that the miserable swamp of a summer has been a bit of a paradise for Limax maximus and his cousins.
Wonder what the collective noun is for slugs?
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Its a Puddle of Slugs apparently! Also, I have a carton with beer in it on my decking at the moment trying to sort my own slug issue and all that seems to happen is that they go in and drink it then climb back out - have had a few that have overdone it and are shrivelled in the morning but not as many as seem to go back for a kebab!
I also have loads of slugs leaving slimy trails in my garden due to the damp conditions this year. I decided to try slug pellets but like you suggested it left half dead slugs all over my garden decking and garden paths which was very unpleasant. It’s also not really suitable if you have other animals/wildlife in your garden. I recently started leaving a yoghurt pot containing beer in my garden; so far this seems to be doing the trick of getting rid of these annoying slugs!
I was at the cash machine the other day and saw a slug with wings. The wings looked like wethered leaves and it was really weird. I hate slugs, and if there starting to grow wings, im goona be terrified. I don’t thing the wings looked strong enough to carry the slug though.
Flying slugs?!! That is a worrying development … not sure beer will work with them!