To think a slug couldnt do this?

[upsideup]

Last night about 2am I went downstairs to get a glass of water, huge orange slug in the corner of the kitchen floor. Out of tired panic and disgust I just put a large glass over it so it could be dealt with in the morning (in the morning by DH).

This morning I came downstairs to find the glass still upside down where I left it but with no slug under, DH claims to not of even noticed the glass and swears he didnt get rid of the slug (which I believe because hes a shit liar and although he regularly plays stupid little pratical jokes he would be laughing by now)

Surely it isnt possible that even this monster of a slug managed to lift the glass enough to escape and didnt even knock the glass over?

And now also I still have a slug loose in my kitchen? How do we get rid of it? and is it likely we have more than 1!?

[PositivelyPERF]

I’m sorry I haven’t read the whole thread, as I’m still screaming in my head at the thought of a cooked slug in a toaster! 😱 arrrrrgggghhhhhhhh

[DarthNigel]

Slugs are the thing that makes me shudder more than anything else in the world.

[Smidge001]

Loads of slugs are orange. All the ones I get in my garden (particularly those that slide across my kitchen window at night to get at the fat ball I've hung out for the birds).

[ScrambledSmegs]

Orange slugs

They're Spanish, apparently.

[RunningOutOfCharge]

They have an orange edge on them, always looks sore to me

[OutyMcOutface]

Another vote for sleep waking-since when are slugs orange?

[RunningOutOfCharge]

I think behind our kitchen plinths we are all infested with the things

[ScrambledSmegs]

There's a patch of grass at my DC's school which is a giant-slug playground when it's wet. We saw one that was the size and shape of a small hedgehog once. Goodness knows how long it was stretched out.

[bumbleymummy]

Maybe it was a slug ghost?

[Fontella]

This morning I came downstairs to find the glass still upside down where I left it but with no slug under

I had the same thing back in the Summer. Admittedly outside, but I put an old heavy rimmed bowl over a monster slug on my porch tiles. It was gone in the morning.

They really are amazing (and horrific) things. I have a huge outside candle lantern - stainless steel and glass and they slither their way up the shiny, straight, glassy vertical surfaces, unbelievable to watch them sliding up at right angles.

I too loathe them - I've had so many plants destroyed by them and have tried all the various methods to get rid, to no avail. I even resorted to going out at night with a torch and a pair of tongs and picking the fuckers out of my plants one by one and hurling them over the fence into the woods, all the time cursing and muttering like some demented crone!



However I do feel a bit sorry for them. To be such a loathsome creature with no useful purpose other than to slither about - they literally have nothing going for them. Snails at least can look cute with their shells, spiders can spin webs and run fast, bees buzz around and make honey, but slugs just slither along leaving a trail of snot behind them and eating everything in their path.

[upsideup]

We havnt seen anything for the last two nights and although when its me checking i'm relieved that means theres still a slug hiding somewhere in my kitchen! Or even worse its escaped somewhere in the rest of the house.

[ScrambledSmegs]

It was orange, you say?

Well that explains everything. It's clearly been exposed to high levels radiation at an experimental science/weapons facility, and is now a super slug.

It's probably eaten your entire garden by now.

[CoodleMoodle]

Possibly even worse than the one in the bathroom right next to the light pull (I nearly TOUCHED it!), was the time I woke up early, looked up at the ceiling and saw a slug right above my head.

I have never in my life got out of bed so fast. Again, I think DH thought there was a fire from the way I reacted, but he did see my point when I told him to look up. Ugh.

[DenPerry]

That is freaky.. I would love to know how it did it. YABU to leave it to DH to sort though!
My mum has a mystery snail/slug in her garage.. been leaving trails every day for years but she has never seen it.

[CoodleMoodle]

Nothing but sympathy OP, they are hideous. Reading this made me shudder so much, I bloody hate slugs. DH and I used to live in a ground floor flat with terrible damp, and the skirting boards didn't quite reach the floor. We stuck brown tape around the bottom of the back door and stuffed newspaper under the skirting boards, but the fuckers still crawled in. I used to put ALL the lights on before going in the kitchen/bathroom, but once there was a revolting grey one climbing up the wall near the string for the bathroom light, and I nearly touched it. I've never screamed so hard in my life, DH thought I was being murdered!

DD once drew me a picture of one at preschool to help me, like some sort of bizarre toddler therapy...

[Mol1628]

We’ve put plastic mesh thingys over our air bricks to stop slugs and rodents getting in. I think they have helped, but not completely got rid of the problem.

[WickedGirl]

Can you block air bricks?

I too would rather have spiders than slugs

[ToastyFingers]

Wait, ghost slugs, I'm done.

[ToastyFingers]

Many years ago, when DH and I were young and head over heels, he was walking me home after our shift at the local somerfield (how retro) and we stopped outside mine for a cheeky snog.

Mid kiss I feel something strange on my thigh, and a little shake of my leg produces a fat slug from inside my trousers.

I still shiver when I think of this.

[TeaCoffeeCakeGinWine]

We had slugs in our kitchen growing up. My mother couldn’t figure out where they were coming from. Until on day. She was making something that needed flour so she went into one of the low down cupboards to get the bag of flour out. Inside it she found several HUGE slugs. However they had now turned white as they must have been eating the flour. Huge slimy floury ghost slugs 🤮

[brownelephant]

yes it can.
no they don't always leave trails

disgusting things.

[DrCoconut]

We have a resident slug. I hate them. We live in an old terrace and I'm sure the air brick is the issue. Boak. Have just inspected the kettle before making coffee.

[nicelyneurotic]

This thread is terrifying. I'm another who would rather 100 spiders than one slug. I'm glad I'm not reading this at night (not envy)

[QuercusQuercus]

Airbricks. That is how they get in. And vent grilles.

These vent the cavities underneath timber floors. In kitchens, your kitchen flooring may well extend only to the edge of your units. Beneath the units it may just be boards with gaps cut for pipes etc. Slugs come in thru the airbricks, up under the units and bingo - slug infestation.

In some old houses where the kitchen floor is solid there are airbricks above floor level. This was to help ventilate rooms where there were old-fashioned coal ranges/boilers. These are even better for slug access. In the Northern city I went to uni, student houses were always tatty Victorian semis, always had these above-floor airbricks behind kitchen units, and always - but always - had 1000 slugs that would come in at night and make whoopee on the surfaces.

[IntelligentYetIndecisive]

I had slugs.

I had to have the entire ground floor dug out, a leaking water main (entering via kitchen) replaced, a new damp proof membrane, a new damp course, new windows and doors and the external walls re-pointed and rendered.

Massive cost and added about six months to my house refurbishment.

But no slugs now.