Do slugs come into your house? Updated with video p4

Yes! <sits on the manky bench with you>

I blamed the cats at first but then when downstairs one night I saw one side in from behind a kitchen unit. Foul.

Sorry, but absolutely pmsl at "thin end of the wedge" ? I have no idea, Hazel, sorry. I guess coming from Africa I'm a bit more used to having all sorts of wildlife in one's home - some (geckos) more welcome than others (parktown prawns). Maybe a large trail of salt on the threshold would reduce it to a small pool of ooze discourage it.

No slugs here but the occasional woodlouse.

I don't think that's normal (the slug in your house rather than your obsessed husband ?). We've never had slugs in the house but do get woodlice in our porch.

I wonder what it's eating?

No slugs in this house but I have in pretty much every student house I've lived in. More than the occassional woodlouse too - we get loads! Can he work out where they are getting in? If its a hole in the wall, then block it out (not airbricks though!). If its the door, then could you get it to fit better? Salt works but leaves a real mess ?

Yes!!! <also on manky bench>

The house I just moved out of was plagued with the feckers! I spent waaay too much time googling about it and apparently it can be do to damp conditions, unseasonal warmth etc. I had masses of them every night in the summer and some of them were heeeoooouge ?

I put salt around every possible hole, door, window etc - didn't help much. I also read that if you lay a line of copper wire around the whole perimeter, then if they touch that, they will explode - ha! See if your OH wants to try that one!!!

PS: Sophie, WTF are parktown prawns - or do I not want to know?!?

SET ?

We used to get loads of slugs in one of the student houses I lived in that had a basement kitchen/lounge. Horrid little fcukers.

Luckily now they just climb up the walls of the house and doors and leave delightful trails everywhere <blurgh>

MrV's war is on snails. He takes it personally that they've dared to enter our garden and eat the weeds lovingly tended plants so picks them up and lobs them onto the road as hard as he can. I don't think he knows that that's not a guaranteed kill and I haven't the heart to tell him ?

If you REALLY want to know, do a google image search. Otherwise just imagine your worst nightmare made flesh.

Voldie don't even get me started on snails. Until this summer, MrH didn't really care about the garden, but now it's all neat and tidy he considers it his personal domain and gets very upset when it is spoilt by anything gastropodic. He started collecting them in plastic bags and putting them in the wheelie bin because if he chucked them over the wall they might come back ?

Yes we had a slug influx for awhile, I think they came in for the cat food in the kitchen, but now we no longer have a cat, and the new uPVC door has been fitted so there are no gaps, we don't get them any more.

That said, we had one in the lounge the other morning and the dog ate it [eeeww] but I don't know where it came from

I just did ?

Why did I google? Why oh why did I google?????

They make cockroaches and slugs look positively tame.

me too <shudder>

We used to get them in the kitchen, until a new one was fitted with new flooring and insulation put around the door frame.

My friend actually rang me about this yesterday, trails all over her carpet. Apparently it's happening everyday now. No idea what can help tbh, she sounded like this ---->? when talking to me. I don't blame her, it's not pleasant esp with a crawling baby.

Don't say I didn't warn you! My cat used to catch them and bring up to my (third-floor) flat to play with. Once I spent the entire night on the sofa because I was too scared to walk across the floor to bed. The next morning it appeared to have gone - but when I got home from work I found it. The cat had eaten half of it and it was still alive ?

Yep we get the horrible feckers aswell! We know it's because the house is slightly damp and we know where they are coming in from but its really difficult to fix it.

I hate them so much, its horrible seeing their slimy trails over things. Vile.

We should be moving in a few weeks so will be free from them hopefully! However we are letting our place out so need to sort it really as won't be fair on the tennants!

I'm not looking up that prawn thing, I can't cope with spiders nevermind weirdy not of this planet crawly things

I REALLY wish I hadn't just done that ?

Why why WHY did I google that? Especially after the warnings ?

Not at home but at work I get them in my classroom. They come in under the door, dance around my classroom and are gone by the next morning.

The cleaner that works in my class has tried so hard to find ways of stopping them but without avail.

Perhaps you could put up a "hadrians wall" of salt all around the internal perimeter? and buy him a set of night vision goggles ?

putting up a web cam to monitor slug behaviour even beats my effort at a camera to catch the cleaner wearing my dressing gown whilst sipping my Stolychnaya ?

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We used to have a wall of salt in the kitchen because we had the same problem there. We fixed that by having a new kitchen ?

He also hates the woodlice that come in but hasn't yet set up a webcam for them.

OK, OK, I just had to know - Ugh! Super-charged roaches! And I'm not squeamish about insects normally ?

https://camuswasright.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/the-parktown-prawn-shudder/

Hazel, don't get slugs through the double glazing but I swear the buggers came in through the cat flap in the old flat!

I think your H should be grateful they don't take strolls over his tooth brush and around the toast bread. Not that my H would ever have allowed that to happen to a hate flatmate or anything. [whistles]

I had them come in the bathroom in my shared house in oxford. -ick- none here though, perhaps they aren't fans of Suffolk.

We have a slug that seems to have a jolly old time of it in our downstairs cloakroom, Ive yet to catch the little sod.

Parktown prawns dont look that bad, theyre like big lobstery type crickets, Not as gruesome as some have described.

And now I know why you've not gone back to SA ?

Least UK insects don't have the cheek to survive a cat attack.

We did cockroach dissection for biology - my friend carefully gassed her roach, imbedded it in wax, and was just taking the scalpel to it when it resurrected and tried to escape. Our teacher her scream 6 floors down and one block along ?

Oh that's nasty ??

Yes, we have loads. They come into the kitchen and living room and leave trails everywhere. I've never been too bothered about it except when I stepped on one once when I was boing a pregnancy fridge-raid in the middle of the night. I figured it's pretty normal for a Victorian house with lots of gaps and draughts esp given that we have a slug infested garden too.

That's what I figured too but it seems an Englishman's Victorian house is his castle and slugs the invaders sliming their way over the virtual moat.

We don't have any slugs, but we live in first floor flat. When we lived in a basement flat in Bristol we were knee deep in woodlice though. We never managed to get rid of them.

I think Mr H is right though. I think the hedgehogs will follow the food source. And as everyone knows, were there are hedgehogs there are badgers. YOu need to get it sorted, and fast.

Otherwise it'll be like the Wind in the Willows in here