Home alone, no salt, slugs in my kitchen

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Posting for traffic. I hate hate hate slugs. Few weeks ago walked into kitchen to find an enormous slug in middle of kitchen. OH put it outside

Yesterday found one as I was hanging out washing between clothes.

Tonight seen one emerging from my kitchen kickboard.

I am literally shaking I hate them.

What do i do

@ScipioAfricanus I am also terrified of anything without legs. Snakes horrify me but I love lizards. It's definitely the lack of legs e.g slugs, snails, worms, snakes, eels, leeches

@hjublen can I please hire you as my bodyguard to protect me from slugs and snails? I am in awe of your research and ruthlessness

How is your fight against the slimey ones going OP?

You don't have any salt? What do you put on chips?

I'm ashamed to be a woman reading this nonsense right now!! .

Get an old birthday card, put it under the slug (it will stick) and carry it out to a field. And grow up! It's a slug. Not a grenade!

I absolutely hate, loathe and detest the slithery bastards. To the poster who said that they hate carpet, I get them coming into my living room!!! It's an old house so we have gaps everywhere. I've told DH that our next house project is re-plastering the entire room because of the slimy fuckers.

And the weird thing is that you can see the trail yet they appear to start and stop in the middle of the carpet. I reckon the buggers beam in and out.

At least your slugs are brown...I get GREEN ones! With yellow stripes. Yeuch. Vile.

DH left his trainers in the porch once. When he put one on in the morning (IN BARE FEET!!), he yelled like a scalded cat when his foot connected with something wet and cold. Yep. Hideous.

LastGirl so I have a phobia of slugs, does that make me less of a woman?!

Phobias are an overwhelming and debilitating fear of something, it's not meant to be rational. Good on you for not having any phobias

LastGirlOnTheLeft

1. LOL if you think everyone has 'a field' near their house.

1. It's got fuck all to do with being a woman. I'm not scared of slugs at all and will pick one up with my bare hands if need be. My male partner, on the other hand, is terrified of them.

1. People have phobias. They can't help it. It's not about being 'brave' or 'growing up' or 'not being silly'. It's just one of those things. Nobody WANTS to be scared of something; if the OP people could just stop being scared of things on demand, clearly they fucking would. They're not living in terror for a laugh. If you've never had a phobia, you haven't got a clue what it's like and are not best placed to comment. Telling someone with a phobia to 'grow up' is like telling someone with depression to 'just stop being unhappy'.

1. With point 3 in mind, perhaps you might want to grow up a bit yourself.

@LastGirlOnTheLeft I will endevour to improve my slug disposal skills so that I may finally be proud to be a woman

theluckiest We've also had a couple in our living room, although they were quite small they were big enough to notice...

DP absolutely HATES them and there was one in the house the day we moved in ... fortunately I saw it before him and got rid of it before he saw or he'd probably have checked into a hotel and put the house back on the market. :-/

He found one trying to get under the front door into the porch a couple of weeks ago and has now put salt on the front and back door steps and basically everywhere he thinks they might get in. The neighbours must have thought he was performing some sort of weird magic ritual or something.

Although I'm not scared of them it is annoying when they get in the house.

@PollyFlint thank you I know that my phobia of slugs and snails is ridiculous to many people, but it is very real and distressing to me. My DH has a phobia of bees and wasps and I wouldn't dream of suggesting that his fear makes him less of a man and he should just get over it!

They're coming from under my kitchen cupboards but can't find a exactly where they are getting in.

OH had a good look and found one but it wasn't the one I seen the other night and this one was fairly small.

We've taken the kickboards off of the cupboards so we can easily inspect it everyday until we're satisfied they've stopped coming in or find where they're coming from.

We lined it with salt so they shouldnt come out into the kitchen. Its really difficult to go in and cook/wash dishes and especially make my daughter a bottle during the night as im constantly looking over my shoulder and scared to stand too close to the cupboards.

We found some trails leading up from the kickboard and into a cupboard.

& to the person saying to grow up and its shameful as a woman to read this, its a genuine repulsion I have towards them. I find them nauseating and just horrible. I honestly wish I could turn it off but I can't. I'd rather move out my house than live with these. Also we seem to be getting MASSIVE ones (see photo above) they're generally not small little slugs. They look like a snake/eel almost!

It happened to me last year - every single morning there would be one on the kitchen floor with a revolting slime trail all over the units. I can't bear them either. My method - use a long handled broom and swipe as if it were a golf club. (While screaming). Usually took around three swipes to get it out of the back door.
Had the outside paved this summer and the gap may have been filled as I have had none for a while.

They are disgusting creatures. I lived in a flat with a slug problem once. I feel for you. I would recommend moving house or arson or both.

You may have slug eggs hatching in the house or nearby. You will have to get rid of them manually. I would have no trouble killing them but if you are squeamish put on some gloves, gather them in a sealed container and when you have enough take them far away and dump them.

Long term look at prevention, there is plenty of advice online. You can start here -

www.allaboutslugs.com/slugs-in-the-house/

I was trimming a tree in our garden. I pulled back a branch and found a weird hole in the trunk. I poked it and about 20 slugs tumbled out, all tangled and slimed together like they were having a sex party. I almost started crying i was so shocked and i am absolutely not squeamish. Don't mind anything but slugs.

We get giant red ones. The year they ate all my new plants i became enraged and used to go around at night in the garden wearing thick gloves and picked them up quickly on a stick and dropped them into the pot of saline i was carrying with me. They needed to be eliminated.

Anyway my advice is simple. Move house. They will slither up to your pillow one day.

Oh no. We've just moved in last year and I was really liking our new house but ill be phoning some estate agents tomorrow then.

I also hate them. We have an infestation at the moment. I found one eating through a bag of flour last week.

Is it possible they are coming in through the vents outside? I have two vents outside which are located at ground level and face straight into where we have been finding the slugs. My OH seen a slug today trying to make its way into a vent stopping it.

Yes they definitely could be coming in through the vents. They can get through tiny gaps, but you could put very fine mesh underneath the vent covering and see if that helps.

Thank you. Feel relieved that we may have found the entry point and a solution. Fingers crossed!

My OH bought some pellets and spread them around the garden last night. There must be around 30-40 slugs there now, due to the pellets. Feel like this is a lot compared to a standard garden? Lots of baby slugs too. Maybe there are some eggs around.