Slugs

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.

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?

What a whopper! Is it a Leopard slug?

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

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

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.

What a whopper! Is it a Leopard slug?

No definitely not a leopard

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

We've got a slug in our kitchen       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.

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.

What a whopper! Is it a Leopard slug?

No definitely not a leopard

One of the invasive orange ones?

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”