Slugs & Snails

[liljim]

What the fuck is it with the houses I've lived in that makes them want to come into my yard? The last place I lived in had a small garden that was festooned with the little bastards. I ended up putting down pellets and the little yard at that old place ended up looking like a shell mausoleum the next morning.

I just went out for a cigarette in the place I live now (been here 5 years) and it's like deja vu. I counted 23 snails and 3 slugs within 4 feet of where I was standing. Disgusting creatures. Time to break out the pellets again, I think.

I know I made a news post about this two years ago, but these things really piss me off.

Anyone else get a shit load of these things in their yards?

[Abnf]

Slugs and snails are cool.

[Chronamut]

nope - but I agree - I like slugs and snails :)

[liljim]

At 9/10/10 06:49 PM, Abnf wrote: Slugs and snails are cool.

No they're not.

[kittehg0d]

slugs and snails are just like drunken people. They are assholes

[Chronamut]

if you dont want slugs and snails just salt everything - or concrete your property and rip up your garden,

[6r0undZ3r0]

Buy some salt and go to town on the damn things.

[liljim]

At 9/10/10 06:52 PM, Chronamut wrote: if you dont want slugs and snails just salt everything - or concrete your property and rip up your garden,

Well, I'm not going to spend money on salt to remove them... And I don't know how many of them are in the foliage, all of the ones I saw were ON a concreted area. Same with the last place I lived.

[SpiderController]

I usually collect them and study them.
Right now I have a Limacidae slug in captivity as well as a praying mantis and some crickets.

[Chronamut]

you know what you should do?

collect them up and sell them - escargot is all the rage you know ;)

They have snail and slug farms for that typa stuff :P

[Ronald-McDonald-LoL]

Jim -- Leave a saucer of beer out all night in the yard, the buggers will slither in and drown in it.

[Wolfos]

Snails are okay but I fucking hate slugs...
Especially when I step on them.

[Decky]

Snails come into my garden at this time of year also.

Hate the buggers, you can't go into the garden for a Cig without hearing a horrid crunch at every tenth step or so. Its horrible to think of the thing squelching under your shoe.

Is always fun the salt them though. Weird how they kinda bubble.

[Cootie]

I wouldn't mind if my yard was infested with them. I would just break out the salt and have a damn good time.

[Chronamut]

At 9/10/10 07:00 PM, Ronald-McDonald-LoL wrote: Jim -- Leave a saucer of beer out all night in the yard, the buggers will slither in and drown in it.

why would he waste perfectly good beer on SNAILS?

[Ronald-McDonald-LoL]

At 9/10/10 07:03 PM, Chronamut wrote:

At 9/10/10 07:00 PM, Ronald-McDonald-LoL wrote: Jim -- Leave a saucer of beer out all night in the yard, the buggers will slither in and drown in it.

why would he waste perfectly good beer on SNAILS?

Well if you want the beer so badly, just pick the slugs out and drink it off the saucer!

[saltovergray]

At 9/10/10 06:56 PM, SpiderController wrote: captivity as well as a praying mantis and some crickets.

Depending on where you live, keeping a praying mantis could be illegal. I'd google that.

Anyways, no, I don't have snails of slugs. The only two REALLY common pests are pumpkin beetles (which, if you don't know, are mimics of ladybugs) and gypsy moths. not so much the moths, rather the catepillers.

[liljim]

At 9/10/10 07:00 PM, Ronald-McDonald-LoL wrote: Jim -- Leave a saucer of beer out all night in the yard, the buggers will slither in and drown in it.

I was wondering when someone might bring that one up. It is something I considered in the past, but:

a) that'd be a waste of good beer, I'd rather drink it.

b) one of my friends said his elderly neighbour did that stuff and the snails did come in and drown in a half can of beer that he'd sunk into the ground. However, every snail in the neighbourhood seemed to come and join the party, which meant that all the pathways were just teeming with the horrid little creatures (making matters worse).

[liljim]

Btw, Wade would have an "Oh Snap" field day over here at the moment.

[Crink]

put a line of salt around you garden

that'll show those bastards for trespassing.

[chipotleaway]

I gutted a slug once. I saw its intestines come out all over the place. It kicked ass.

[Scarface]

Snails suck fucking ass, but slugs are cool. Don't knock slugs.

[rebu]

At 9/10/10 06:56 PM, SpiderController wrote: I usually collect them and study them.
Right now I have a Limacidae slug in captivity as well as a praying mantis and some crickets.

:o Pics?

[Dosensuppen]

Well, Jimmy boy, you better take one of these advices ... otherwise, it's slugtopia forever.

[Boss]

use them and their high pitched voices to record cute songs and tell people they're chipmunks then start a secret love affair with the snails

[Loki]

Turn all that grass into asphalt!

Or simply ignore it. There's nothing you can really do unless you want to use mass pesticides or waste a ton of beer.

[PoppyClock]

& puppy dog tails.

[Dean]

I don't come across many in my garden, but I saw many slugs in particular when I took my dog for a walk early this afternoon. It was probably to do with me walking in a woodland area in heavy rain. They soon came out from their hiding places.

[Lost-Chances]

Any chance of a picture?

Also, I'd probably keep putting pellets down until something happens.

[SteelChair]

I only get Roaches in my garage.

I hate them