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Slugs - Small chilli - 06-07-2025

Look what I found in my live mouse trap this morning! [attachment=8342] . A proper monster. 

This is the second one that’s been big enough to set off the trap.

RE: Slugs - JJB - 06-07-2025

(06-07-2025, 05:38 PM)Small chilli Wrote: Look what I found in my live mouse trap this morning!  . A proper monster. 

This is the second one that’s been big enough to set off the trap.

I'm not going to 'like' that! Eww.  What did you do with it?

RE: Slugs - Veggie - 06-07-2025

What a whopper! Is it a Leopard slug?

RE: Slugs - Bren - 06-07-2025

That's huge  SC.  Sad    Looking at the picture it's like it had a mouse head  but one that's been chopped off.  Big Grin 

We've got a slug in our kitchen   Angry    slimy tails across the floor I've even resorted to slug pellets but that's not helped.

RE: Slugs - Small chilli - 06-07-2025

(06-07-2025, 05:42 PM)JJB Wrote:
(06-07-2025, 05:38 PM)Small chilli Wrote: Look what I found in my live mouse trap this morning!  . A proper monster. 

This is the second one that’s been big enough to set off the trap.

I'm not going to 'like' that! Eww.  What did you do with it?
It's still there.  Still trying to work out how to fight the thing out.

RE: Slugs - Small chilli - 06-07-2025

(06-07-2025, 05:43 PM)Veggie Wrote: What a whopper! Is it a Leopard slug?
No definitely not a leopard

RE: Slugs - Small chilli - 06-07-2025

(06-07-2025, 07:50 PM)Bren Wrote: That's huge  SC.  Sad    Looking at the picture it's like it had a mouse head  but one that's been chopped off.  Big Grin 

We've got a slug in our kitchen   Angry    slimy tails across the floor I've even resorted to slug pellets but that's not helped.
We had lots in our last kitchen.  Worst one was the bugger in the bread bin. We couldn't get it, because it was one of the bin with the top that rolls inward.  And the little sod was behind the lid.

RE: Slugs - SarrissUK - 07-07-2025

I was smugly thinking I don't have many slugs here, as I hadn't seen any this spring, but boy was I wrong.

I was tipped about mixing one liter of lukewarm water with one packet of dry yeast, three tablespoons of sugar, and three table spoons of flower. It makes a thin batter, that I poured into containers and placed strategically in the slug motorway line (I have found that they come in from one particular direction, as two plants are particularly attacked). I placed out six containers in total, and I've probably caught 100 slugs in them. It works because flour is poisonous to slugs, and the yeast and the sugar attracts them.

The rain dilutes it, obviously, so I will see if I can find something to place over the containers.

RE: Slugs - toomanytommytoes - 07-07-2025

(06-07-2025, 08:59 PM)Small chilli Wrote:
(06-07-2025, 05:43 PM)Veggie Wrote: What a whopper! Is it a Leopard slug?
No definitely not a leopard
One of the invasive orange ones?

RE: Slugs - Small chilli - 07-07-2025

(07-07-2025, 01:08 PM)toomanytommytoes Wrote:
(06-07-2025, 08:59 PM)Small chilli Wrote:
(06-07-2025, 05:43 PM)Veggie Wrote: What a whopper! Is it a Leopard slug?
No definitely not a leopard
One of the invasive orange ones?
After a bit of research I think it’s Larger red slug - Arion rufus. I’m not sure if the Spanish slugs have got here yet. Only one dodgy reported sighting in 2014. With the comment “I think it’s a Spanish slug”