where have all the slugs gone???????

[lackaDAISYcal]

Our garden is usally a haven for slugs....lots of them. We have lots of old stone walls with crevices that are usually stuffed full of sleeping slugs in the daytine; big fat ones, little skinny ones and they ravish our veg patch like things possessed and you can't go out in the dark if it's been raining as it's like a slug blood bath afterwards.....horrible slimy sickening things.

This year......no slugs . I think I have seen one slug and that came on the bottom of some bedding plants for the garden. DH was lifting some old slabs last week and said there were no more than five slugs lurking under all the slabs.

Have we developed some sort of weird slug deficient microcosm in our garden?...and if so, how can I bottle it to make my fortune?

Of course the creature who is creating the rustling in the bottom of our very overgrown hedge in the early twilight might be a hedge-pig, but could one hedge-pig eat a whole garden's worth of slugs????

in my kitchen I think

I think I might have the rest in my kitchen and one particular deviant who insists on crawling along the lounge carpet every night.

Do you want them back? Can't have your hedge-pig getting hungry.

lol.....it's just so weird. We used to get them in the kitchen as well sometimes and the cat was forever trailing them in stuck to the fur on her belly

We are going to try setting a print trap to see if it is a hedge-pig. they like to eat cat food don't they?

Oh your poor cat! And poor you having to get rid of them. I can bearly look at slugs - the thought of one in my hair gives me the heebie-geebies.

I think our little prickly friends do like cat food. Maybe there are more than one - perhaps they have a lovely nest full of baby slug destroyers.

We will set our trap when the weather is guarantedd to stay dry over night and hopefully will see lots of hedge-pig prints....big and small. I hadn't thought of babies too. would be very exciting if we had them.

We have occasional hedge-pig visitors. Last summer one walked across the patio with a baby in it's mouth! Not quite sure how it managed that with the prickles. I don't know where the nest was though and we still have our pet house slugs so maybe they weren't locals and were just through for an early evening stroll.

Let us know how you get on with investigations.

The slugs have all come to my house, where they are intent on avoiding the [shhh] slug pellets and devouring my newly planted Moroccan daisies. Really - I planted them full of buds and they have all but razed them to the ground. Mean slugs.

They are eating my spinach and sunflowers

Quick slug count today in all the rain.....precisely nill! A few snails but not a lot considering how wet it has been. First dry night we will do the paint trap to see of we can catch some hedge-piggy prints.

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We have found frogs in the garden before; living in a plastic bag filled with gravel and under the marjoram patch......methinks a mini-beast hunt is in order

Bill Oddie eat your heart out

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