I'm not a country mouse. We've established this. That said, I can do some country type stuff, but, there is other stuff that I would rather just not deal with. I would rather not deal with big, nasty slugs. Ewww.
These nasty things are just all over here at night- the picture above was just taken through our sliding glass door as this little slimer makes his way up. Ewww.
At night time, you have to be really careful where you step, because they are everywhere, and they are huge! Blahhh!!!
The worst thing is, yesterday I was in the kitchen and saw this nasty black, not slug shaped thing under the kitchen cupboard. I wasn't going to touch it, so I made Joel get up from what he was doing and come deal with it. Oh wait, I did sort of kick at it first, realize that it was a slug, and that it was still alive because it started moving it's nasty little head. Oh, God, I'm having the worst shivers all over just thinking about that nasty thing being in my house. BLAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!
The thing is, he was all curled up under the counter because someone probably nearly killed him by stepping on him and bringing him indoors stuck to a shoe and it was daylight, but, um, I just shudder to think what he would have done, where he would have gone, when the lights went out. Ugh, ack, blah, vomit.
I am used to the geckos; they're cute. And they eat mosquitoes. We like them. The random mice that seem to live around here are even ok... thing is they run away from you, and don't come out when you're near, and hey, they're little and soft and all that... I've even managed to become somewhat fascinated with the cockroaches.... I haven't seen any in our house...but when they pop up out of random nooks and crannies somewhere in the school I watch them skitter away, and wonder about them still being here 10 million years from now...
But the slugs. Ugh, they are just so gross! I know the picture above is not that good, and that the slug on the window isn't even THAT big (although, he is the size of that nail polish bottle, but I have seen bigger here- this one just happens to be on my window), but gack- they just make me want to hurl!
Anyone know any natural remedies for getting rid of slugs? Or any reason why I shouldn't despise them?
5 comments:
You can sink cups of beer into the ground, they have to be at ground-level, or half oranges with salt inside. In general if you leave a line of salt they won't cross, it's caustic to them. But if you do the beer traps, you'll have to empty them and that, my new internet buddy will thoroughly make you hurl.
And maybe you should institute a house-shoe, street-shoe policy?
Here is a good reason to dislike slugs, snails, aphids. They eat you plants that your trying to grow. You have got to make sure your checking your plants, on the stems in the morning and smushing anything that moves. Its kinda gross but you must kill because it you just throw them somewhere they will spend the rest of the day crawling back.
By the way, its kinda wierd to read a blog thats dated with tomorrows date when it still yesterday now for me.
Thanks for the info guys. I may be go outside and start sprinkling a big old bag of salt one day- I'll feel like a witch of some sort surrounding myself in a circle of safety inside my salt ring. :)
Martin- that must be funny about the date... hee hee! :)
And for me the date is funny the other way round because I got used to you being just two hours behind me. Now you are way behind. I keep looking for you on Facebook at the normal time and then remember...
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