Where are all the slugs?

[ParrotsAteThemAll]

Just been out to my garden on my nightly hedgehog hunt and realised that I’ve not seen a slug in a very long time. I used to have an array of slugs, regular black ones and those big orange ones almost the size of a bar of soap (?spanish slugs).

Has the heatwave shrivelled them all up? Is this a worry for our eco system? What will the hedgehogs eat??

Oh no thank you !

Thanks, I’ll be interested to watch that.

I never kill anything in my garden, I like to think it’s food for another. I get plenty of frogs and birds, and one of my resident blackbirds babies has remained in the garden so there must be plenty of food for her.

Nope. They're in my garden! We've had a massive increase this week with the cooler nights / mornings and dew on the grass (NW coast).

Maybe mine will be out of hiding soon too!

You can get mouldable copper mesh which may work under your sink. Problem is, they are more rampant than rabbits!

Which is why I've been doing a bit more than just putting them outside lately. Some I take to the park which I walk through regularly, some have been deposited on some shrubs in the supermarket carpark. DH tells me to kill them but I just can't. I'm hoping the ones I remove get eaten by whatever wildlife eats slugs. Everything's got a predator, right?

In my living room judging by all the trails we've been finding this week!

They definitely squeezed through the air/water vents in the modern door-frame and wandered around one room. I bunged the holes up with Blu tac, which seems to have worked. A relation used to put an inverted grapefruit skin in the garden, to collect a group of them. They certainly teach their children where to crawl. Why would they be up on the outside wall about 4 years ago on a damp spring evening? What's on a wall that they would want, when the earth and plants were perfectly damp?

We keep getting them in our kitchen too it’s gross. They look too fat to get through the cracks in the doors.

they seem to go after the cat food

I’m getting them in my house too. Had them in my last house which was rented but I think we’re getting them here because we’re doing work and some of the kitchen kick boards are falling out. We sealed up outside

We've tried copper tape and it didn't help. I don't like killing creatures, and I don't kill slugs in the garden as I know they have their place in the ecosystem. I just can't cope with them inside my kitchen.

They are still about... I get them in my kitchen too, there is often a slug trail at the back door. I have only ever seen one though if I have gone to get a drink in the middle of the night, they are always gone by the morning. They do no harm, I would never kill them.

I have a shower slug named Stephen. He disappears for a while then reappears under the shelf thing that runs along the base of my wet room. Whenever I'm in the shower and spot him that Scottish lady's voice gets stuck in my head, "STEPHEN, I thought ye were ded!".

@HolyMoly24shocking isn’t it. The ones I’ve seen are so fat I don’t get how they get through. We’ve sealed up several areas but I saw one coming out of the broken kitchen kickboard the other night so waiting for DH to fix it. I’ve seen trails in the living room too which is next door to the kitchen.

They’re all in my bloody utility room.

The brown stripey ones are in my kitchen. I just accept their presence now and give them names. Still feeling quite sad about Stuart who was a constant presence till I went on holiday last year during a hot spell of weather, and hasn't been seen since.

I’m worried about wasps and bees, none around here this year

😆Sorry, I know it isn't funny...

This made me laugh 😆

I’m still thankfully seeing plenty of bees, but can’t remember when I saw a wasp last.