Slugs: I despise them with a passion!
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 - 12:05am
These f'ing things show up in the worst possible spots. Garbage can handle - check. Middle of the sidewalk where a million people walk daily - check. Freshly cleaned glass door - check. Lately, I've seen a few that are freakishly large and an excessive amount of slime trails. Are these things invading my neighborhood? If so, why? And, should I be worried? Please send help before these f*ckers slime me to death! In the meantime, I'm going to buy few thousand pounds of granulated salt.
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Kill them all!
Oh and grab a hangun just in case they decide to revolt.
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I've never understood the fear/hate toward slugs. Sure, they're slimy, ugly, and have a bitter taste, but what have they done to you? They're extremely slow moving. It's not like you can't see one coming at you. For the most part, they only eat dead plants and stuff (there's exceptions of course).
On the other hand.. I woke up this morning with something tickling my arm. I jumped up, wiping my arm, and stared at the floor and saw a dark object. Flipped on the light expecting one of those creepy black crickets that seem to spread this type of year, but no.. it was a spider. A big motherf*cker. Unfortunately, he possibly escaped under the bed. I say possibly because I had a box with "stuff" that's kept under the bed which I pulled out and repeatedly shoved under the bed over and over trying to run him over.
I think I got him. But can you ever be sure?
Exactly.
(No, I wasn't trying to turn this into a spider thread. I just had to share my morning experience with someone. And guess what? You're it. I guess to try and keep the thread on topic...)
Tasty (but kinda bitter).
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My fear and hatred of spiders is far worse than it is for slugs so that story just creeped me the f*ck out. I wouldn't have left the room until I had ABSOLUTE confirmation that it's dead.
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they freak the hell out of me. They're just this undifferentiated bag of protoplasm with antennas. Right next to leeches on my list of things that give me the willies.
the fact that anyone knows that they taste bitter... :what, no barfing smiley?:
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My mom just came back from Honduras where a local delicacy is a near dead slug that is served in a ceviche type fashion.
She said it was delicious despite giving her a tummy ache.
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I too am a deathly afraid of slugs. That is because
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Dude, are you trying to imitate the spider thread?
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They kept coming into my house for a bit. Try stepping on one when you walk to the bathroom early morning, only then can you truly hate slugs.
That makes me think - most bugs and creepy crawlies serve some useful purpose, but basically all slugs do is eat your garden, right?
Even the creepy spiders mainly just eat large creepy bugs, which I have no problem with.
Sometimes creatures seem to have no purpose other than to be something else's food =P
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They've been assaulting our house for the last two weeks! My wife's started getting paranoid about them coming through the crack under the kitchen door, and has been salting like a fiend.
The Slug Patriach came up through the floorboards in the dining room and attached itself to the patio doors. It was literally as big as my palm, with a huge blister on its head and angry eyes.
His size was not enough to save him from the salt. I'll post a pic of him later.
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Aww, I think they're kinda cute (slime notwithstanding). Of course, we don't get a lot of them out here, so I haven't had any horror stories.
I think the most horrifying word in that whole post is "near".
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The number of slugs can be drastically reduced by having a large number of wild birds in the local area. Try and tempt birds into your garden with feeders and nesting sites.... Other than that just stick a thin line of salt in any place where they can get in - they won't be getting in that way from now on.
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Yeah but you don't realise that their ultimate evolutionary step is human-eating things. It even sounds like a slug - with the straw-slurping noise they make when feeding...
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It's all a coverup. Slugs are actually flying the UFO's we catch glimpse of overhead. Those in the picture above are just a handful of their vast army of their nefarious agents, embedded in backyards across the globe.
They are watching. They know your every move, habit and vice.
They are waiting for the moment to unveal that they are our true overlords. When the signal is beamed from Slugwinia, they will turn off their personal shrink devices and begin the full-scale assault.
Be glad you don't live in the Pacific northwest then. Banana slugs in Oregon, Washington state and Vancouver can grow to be around 12 inches in length.
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Yeah, I was gonna say. A few weeks ago my kids were marveling over an absolutely enormous banana slug that was climbing up one of the living room windows. It was easily 11-12 inches long.
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So true. I snapped this picture at Snoqualmie Falls.
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Slugs?! HE created slugs? They can't hear. They can't speak. They can't operate machinery! I mean, are we not in the hands of a lunatic?!
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Wooo! Slug thread!
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Anyone have a picture of a spider eating a slug?
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This thread delivers.
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No kidding.
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Now all we need is a "stop posting slug pictures in the slug thread" thread.
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Ah, Lou beat me to the punch.
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When I was a kid, my mother heard or read somewhere that slugs would shy away from the smell of dead slugs. So, she would drop them into a jar full of water, and eventually spray that water onto plants in the garden.
I'm not sure if it actually worked.
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I agree with you. We had huge Leopard slugs the size of my arm last week, took about an hour before they bubbled and died on my patio deck. I think its just the poor weather bringing them on, foggy misty, rainy weather= Humongous disgusting slugs..Come on winter!!
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Plus it will keep out witches so you know you've got that extra bonus.
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