Slug Mania

[SueOrr0103]

Hello,

I wonder if someone can help me with a very annoying issue I'm currently having.

Every morning I see slimy slug trails in my living room carpet. The living room otherwise has wooden floors(and carpet in the Center) so I'm not able to trace where they come from.

Tried putting out some beer, got one but then they got clever and wind take the bait.

Any suggestions at all? Is this an issue with Victirian conversions?

Many thanks,

Sue

[Penguin68]

Put out slug pellets around the room perimeter - particularly near any external door or window (if you don't have any pets) Or salt.

[Jeremy]

Yes... I put slug pellets all around the outside of my house and that seemed to do the trick. You could also try filling all the gaps in your floor/skirting (or get pest controllers to do it).

[DulwichFox]

I had the same problem for weeks.. Slug trails in the center of the carpet.

Eventially I found the little bugger.. took him outside.. problem solved.

Foxy

[Blah Blah]

Try cola instead of beer. They like sugar too.

[uncleglen]

I had this problem with slugs years ago in the front downstairs room where there was a bay window, also a Victorian house. We were renting. 3 months after we moved out the whole front bay window fell out. There were no cracks, no sign that anything was amiss until it fell out.

[DulwichFox]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> I had the same problem for weeks.. Slug trails in

> the center of the carpet.

>

> Eventially I found the little bugger.. took him

> outside.. problem solved.

>

> Foxy

I can't believe it.. After poating this just yesterday, I have found slug trails this morning..

Foxy

[Louisa]

Invest in a cat. Well trained house cats will hunt down and remove slugs.

Louisa.

[DulwichFox]

Louisa Wrote:

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> Invest in a cat. Well trained house cats will hunt

> down and remove slugs.

>

> Louisa.

NOT a good idea Lou.

Slugs and snails are regularly infested by the parasitical lungworm. If a cat eats an infected slug, they too can become hosts. Lungworms cause difficulty with breathing through damaging the airways and interfering with mucus accumulation in the lung tissue, with possibly fatal consequences

Foxy.

[Robert Poste's Child]

And, as all French & Saunders fans know, you can't train cats.

[SueOrr0103]

Thanks so much for all your suggestions.

I'm going to try the beer and cola trap tonight and get the bugger!!

Sue

[Rosetta]

Salt kills them.

[Seabag]

Does moving upstairs help

Like how many flights does it take before you're slug free

Dawson height massive, tell us your slug tales/trails

[jacks09]

SueOrr0103 Wrote:

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> Thanks so much for all your suggestions.

> I'm going to try the beer and come trap tonight

> and get the bugger!!

>

> Sue

Blimey - what quantities are you mixing those two Sue?

[SueOrr0103]

Haha I obviously meant cola trap, stupid auto correct. Well the latest is the bugger ignored the beer altogether. Pellets then..

[jacks09]

Maybe try the autocorrect recipe ;-)

[mancity68]

Also try and work out how they're getting in and plus up all those gaps. In our place they were squeezing up the side of radiator pipes where wooden flooring wasn't fitted really tight.