slugs in the sink

[frankief]

I am getting regular visits from slugs, probably coming up from behind the kitchen sink unit. Going into the kitchen last thing at night or first thing in the morning I can usually find two or three of them. Found one in my breakfast bowl just as I was about to add the porridge!!! yuk! - they are cream/grey colour so not that easy to see.Lucky escape there! How do I get rid of them?, at the moment I sling them into the bushes over the fence. Are they a risk at all to health (I don't plan to eat one hopefully).

[pastafreak]

Not sure if they are a risk to health-but i would have vacated the premises by now-lol!! Try pouring a cup of salt down your sink drain ,and behind the units last thing at night, spread it around all points of entry for the little blighters to shrivel up in.

[wildwood]

Slugs and snails can be intermediate hosts for parasitic nematode eggs, so unless you eat one they are quite harmless. I find them amazing animals with a self made locomotion trail. Mating slugs are one of natures most beautiful sights.

I can however understand your abhorrence at the things and you can also try slug/snail pellets, very cheap. Just make sure no kids or pets can get at them. (slugs are not recommended as pets because it is very hard to find a hoop small enough to use when teaching them to jump through one)

[lankeela]

Just remember slugs are only homeless snails.

[leelapops]

Sorry I can't help you frankief, my domain is wasps, mice and ants, having been infested with each at some point in the 4 years since I moved out of the parental home!

I really just wanted to laugh out loud at lankeela-I love your dryness! (driness didn't look right!)

lankeela, would slugs sell teeny-tiny slug-sized copies of The Big Issue?

[lankeela]

No, SlimeLife Magazine!

[frankief]

Tried the pellets, with limited success (you have to find out where they are getting in!) What I wanted to know was why I never see them during the day? Are they sleeping somewhere in the cellar or do they not like electrical light and only venture in at night?