White Noise, Red Sun: Slugs

White Noise, Red Sun

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Monday, April 17, 2006

Slugs



We have slugs. A lot of them. Indoors. It is not fun. At first we weren't going to write about our little slug problem, but it's gotten to the point where not posting it would be a glaring omission. It's really gotten out of control. Every night we find at least one downstairs, pick it up with some paper or cardboard and toss it outside. One night last week I evicted a record five. We think they are coming from behind the kitchen sink (there is a 1" gap between the sink/counter & the wall) but how exactly they are getting in remains a mystery. I can't tell if we're slowly eliminating some rouge faction that made its way inside or if they just keep coming in night after night. Either way, it's getting old fast.

Mike

posted by Shiflet @ 11:05 AM 4 comments  

4 Comments:

At 12:00 PM, like a eagle said...

It's millipede season down here in Miami...we get between 5-15 of them in our house daily...when we first moved in, one would freak us out, we'd go get a piece of toilet paper and carefully escort the invader outside...now, when we get up in the morning, we just walk around and make a little pile of em in our hands and throw em all out at once...it's a non-issue...

if they stay inside, they dry out, and then you step on them in the middle of the night and they explode into a billion dry crusy pieces...i imagine i've probably ingested 7 or 8 in my sleep over the last couple of years...

g'luck with the slugs!...perhaps make little barriers out of salt around your cabinets, doors, adn windows...that'll stop em

 
At 9:10 PM, pinkmydear said...

Not sure if it helps, but sometimes gardeners will put newspaper outside in a grassy spot away from plants that are being eaten by slugs. They lure them to the newspaper (who knew slugs were literate?) and then kill them or at least remove them from the area.

 
At 11:02 PM, Tricia said...

What do the locals do? Is this a seasonal thing that just started or does this go on year round?

 
At 2:34 PM, Howie Stelzer said...

Mike, thank you for posting a nice color photo of the one thing I am most phobic of... YUCKO. The idea of indoor slug visitors is horrifying enough to make me want to sleep with the lights on, or never visit Japan.

However: other than being currently out of my sight, slugs have one good quality: they like beer. Fill up a coffee can about 1/4" with beer and set it outside. The vile beasts will slime thier way into the can and drown. There might also be no-kill traps that you fill with strawberries or something, but... who knows.

YUCK.

 

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