Is a slug dead if .....?

[Caro]

I've chopped it in half, left it on my path for a couple of minutes with my back turned, then when I turn back to it to clear it up, the head end has squiggled off somewhere? (PS definitely not birds, think it wriggled off under its own steam).

Thanks

Caro

[Pumpkin Becki]

What a horrid thought! I always decapitate my slug population - bleurgh!! **thinks of headless (or rather bottomless) slugs crawling around my garden at night - shudder**

[Keith2202]

Their guts normally ooze out and they sort of fold in on themselves, so maybe you just couldn't see the head amidst the carnage?

[Scottishnewbie]

same thing has happened to mine! i chop them in half and i watched as one of the crawled away the other day! I was more incredulous that sick!

[SarzWix]

I just wanted to say "EEEeuuuuuuwwwwww!"

[OllieMartin]

Just throw a little salt on them. Saves you getting the slug-gillotine out.

[FB.]

Size 12 boot......squelch (with a twist of the boot for good measure).

Mortality rate: 100%.

[kirsty b]

I just wanted to say "EEEeuuuuuuwwwwww!"

What she said!!! What with this thread and Sluglobbers story about one going up her leg, I'm feeling distinctly icky

[Bren In Pots]

Wonder if another slug came along and ate it, they do seem to eat everything.

[Caro]

Well, I got a second slug and sliced it in two. I don't actually enjoy this, in fact it somewhat grosses me out, but if it's my veg or the slugs, then the slugs get it!

This was quite a small one, with distinct little antenna things on its head. I sliced it right in two on the path, then watched. Sure enough, the head end "legged" it. I have never seen a slug move so fast; the head half fair zoomed across the paving stone. Until I flicked it into the middle of the lawn with a vague hope a bird would come along when I left.

So I'm changing tack. Like the salty water bucket many of you use, I'm going to try the beer bucket. Rather than wait for them to find a beer trap, I'm going to pick them off and flick them in the beer. They can then happily get drunk and drown themselves, then I'll throw the whole lot on the compost heap, which I guess you can't do with salty water.... the bonus is, I can treat the snails the same way, whereas at the moment I just send them sailing through the air as far as I can.

If anyone sees a flaw in my plan, please let me know!

Caro

[draig]

my solution is to feed them to the chooks no chance of escape and they are recycled into eggs. I have just collected about 20 slugs from my lettuce and courgettes which will make a breakfast treat.... for the chooks

[terrier]

So I'm changing tack. Like the salty water bucket many of you use, I'm going to try the beer bucket. Rather than wait for them to find a beer trap, I'm going to pick them off and flick them in the beer. They can then happily get drunk and drown themselves, then I'll throw the whole lot on the compost heap, which I guess you can't do with salty water.... the bonus is, I can treat the snails the same way, whereas at the moment I just send them sailing through the air as far as I can.

If anyone sees a flaw in my plan, please let me know!

Caro

You can't drink salty water, it's horrible, don't waste good beer on slugs!

my solution is to feed them to the chooks no chance of escape and they are recycled into eggs. I have just collected about 20 slugs from my lettuce and courgettes which will make a breakfast treat.... for the chooks

I tried that and my chooks just turn their beaks up at slugs and refuse to eat them

[Glutton4...]

You can't drink salty water, it's horrible, don't waste good beer on slugs!


I tried that and my chooks just turn their beaks up at slugs and refuse to eat them

Totally with you on that one - waste of Beer!

When I threw a huge slug in to my Chooks about 4 grabbed it and ripped it to shreds I think they all got a bit in the end!

Luckily we don't get many, they can't seem to hide in hard clay!

[Caro]

Ah, but I don't drink beer

It would be a very different story if the solution was wine

(PS nobody tell OH where his beer is vanishing to ....)

[BarleySugar]

I have a jam jar of salty water in the garden, and any slugs go straight in. Once it looks just too disgusting, or someone asks what it is, I pour it down the outside drain. The dissolved slugs just go in with all the other crud from the street. I did used to snip them with the secateurs, but perhaps this wasn't fatal enough .