AAAAAArgghhhh slug trail on the living room carpet!

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I have a clean house. Am shuddering all over now.

Dp found a slug in the kitchen yesterday morning but i thought it had been brought in on the leeks i pulled up the night before from the garden. Am v worried that we have a problem.

What can we do?

And how on earth do you remove slug trails?

come on....outlaws will be here soon and don't want them to think i harbour slugs regularly!

Slugs use to come in the kitchen through my back door-god knows how,so i put a line of salt across floor edge at back door and they never came in again!

I used Baby wipes to remove slug trails-sounds odd but it did work-like removing felt tip pen from our pine kitchen table.

I lived very rural so know a thing about these ucky things!

we have a slug problem in our living room, i daily remove them. am about to put salt down by the edge of the doors and the runners.

thanks, will try that salt. Uggghhh i think slugs are actually the only thing in the world which i am physically repulsed by.

same here. this place is damp in places and we have mould. do u think on that basis we should leave

Ok, we've had them a couple of times and always just hoovered them up with the dyson.

Thats worked perefctly

A clean house and home grown vegetables - I'm impressed

Is there something bad about slug trails?

It's just that we have a basement kitchen and sitting room and very regularly come down to slug trails. It's an old house and we rent so I refuse to make a huge effort to deal with them.

The trail is dry by the time we get up and it just brushes off.

Or am I missing some massive gross-out piece of information, eg slug trail will eat the carpet/slugs carry dreaded lurgies/only the mingingest of mingy types would be unmoved by slug trails...?

a line of salt will do it...They touch it and they die!

the slug i picked up with paper the other day had little bugs on it. is that gross enough?

Eeeergh.....I hate Slugs, they are horrible little beasties and they haunt me! If there is a slug/snail phobia I have it and the thought of one in my house I could not cope with so you have all my sympathies

I have just found out that you can buy 'nematodes' that are a natural parasites to slugs/snails. You can not buy it in the Garden Centres yet, but I have tried, slug pubs, copper tape, grapefruit houses and even salt. The best slug deterrant I have is my dh, he has his own bucket and spade and goes on a daily slug/snail hunt in the garden and he considers it a bad day if he gets under twenty and over 50 is a good day.
I realise that this is not solving your problem but I can tell you that the blue slug pellets only attract them so I would avoid using those and find out where the little beasties are getting in and block it up!
I understand your distress at finding one in your kitchen and I do hope that it came from the leeks, but if not check out the internet as there are lots of 'solutions' that are suposed to deter them and if you find one that works, then please let me know....
Last year I filmed a slug eating it's way quite hapily through a pile of slug pellets with my camcorder, It is known as the 'slimewatch' film and it is great to show those people who just pop 'round and stay for the next few hours, they tend to disapear very quickly after seeing my expert use of the close-up button on the camera.
Yes, I do have a 'thing' about slugs and snails and as far as I am concerned each and every one was placed upon this earth to find its way into my garden and ultimately leave me screaming 'Agh! SLUG!' and my neighbour is now well trained in the art of slug and snail removal and is almost as good as dh!
I could write a dissitation on the 'Wee Beasties' but no one understands my fear of them and laughs, It is not funny when you really do have a phobia like this so I am sending you the only thing I can, 'Anti slug vibes' and lots of sympathy.....

Bunglie, I just found out that one of my friends has a lifelong and very comprehansive terror of slugs. You're not alone.

Have you done the beer trap? You get some sweetheart stout or just the dregs of a can - whatever, though I believe they prefer sweeter beer. Then take a marg tub or similar and bury it up to the rim in the soil. Put a few fl oz of the beer in it - they are attracted to it and fall in, can't get out, and eventually DIE.

My MIL gets loads this way.

Thanks for the understanding Prunistuffing, yes I have tried the beer trap only I called it a slug pub! They all got pissed, drowned and I then had to dispose of the the container, but they soon got wise to it and after a couple of weeks they were back to chomping on my polyanthus and gazarnias.....I don't know what it is that turns me into a quivering jelly maybe its the slime and that horrible oange stripe that they all seem to have...argh just the thought has sent me diving for the remenants of the Christmas booze...

this thread is actually making me feel ill now. I spread salt liberally everywhere i thought slugs could enter today, to dp's amusement- he was making witty comments like 'oh look Dad, it's been snowing outside' when he let his parents in.
But i haven't seen one all day...

This thread is horrible, ew ew ew.

If I see a slug on the path while walking anywhere, I have to cross the road. My toes have been curling reading this, and when I got to the bit about the orange stripe, I shivered!!!!!!

Hi we used to get this problem in our old house (1830's build) the whole area experienced the same prob apparently as there were lots of underground streams in the vicinity and also the construction was of such that if you lifted the floorboards you could see earth - cause of the age of the house. We eventually managed to stop them after finding every last hole that they might have been able to come up through and blocking - we look back it now with affection in our sterile 1970's box, we sort of got used to them by the time we moved

One trail went all over the bread board!

We used to get slugs in the kitchen and dining room in our old house (1880 build). I could do nothing to stop them so I just got used to living with slugs!!

Washing machine broke once and when the engineer came out he found a slug in the electric workings of the machine (looking very cooked by the way!). He thought this was hilarious!

I think that there ought to be a name for slug phobic like me.... I am glad I am not alone and I think a support group is necessary as we are obviously very traumatised by the whole slime trail of a subject!
I once got a pint of milk with a slug in, the letter of apology did tell me that the slug was dead,steralized and harmless and offered me a free trip to the bottleing plant to see for myself how seriously they take steralization. I have never bought another 'bottle' of milk and I gave the Unigate Milkman a letter from enviromental health dept as he gave me a frozen chicken as compensation!
I am glad that I am not alone in my slug/snail phobia

pmsl @ dyson..just imagine them spinning round

I saw a book in Waterstones today 100 ways to kill a slug and thought of youGiraffe!

Ha ha, no you're not alone Bunglie. Even my two and a half year old says 'Mummy is scared of slugs' with a note of glee in her voice. 'Mummy are you terrified?'

Another method is to lay a small amount of sandpaper near holes where you think they may be coming through.

Works in the same way as those bumpy surfaces meant to stop people nicking supermarket trolleys.

Jeez, they are revolting aren't they? Until we bought this house I have usually lived in old houses and have battled with slugs in every one of them . In one house my bedroom was on the ground floor and I could never, ever get out of bed at night for a wee or anything as I knew damn well there would be slugs on the floor - a friend trod on one once and had to pour bleach on her foot she was so traumatised by the 'contamination'!

My worst experience was finding slug trails on my beautiful red velvet Chinese shoes - I had to throw them out, and I was gutted. Have never found a pair to replace them.

My house is now festivly decorated with sandpaper,salt and beer....what more could a slug want for Christmas