Slugs indoors. Help!!!

Tis

I always put salt on them (this is in the garden so no problem) - makes a gooey mess but a squirt of All Purpose spray cleaner (using rubber gloves) with a kitchen towel should help. Bit yukky but its a cheap solution and I can't imagine your dog will be too interested in it. Try putting a trail across the doorway where they are coming in.

bellsbells

salt down in a line where they get in is the only solution I found worked. However you could try putting down a copper strip like like they do in gardens around plant pots. It gives them an electric shock!

Karmacat

I always heard that to protect plants you put mashed up eggshells around them? But I guess thats not very nice to have indoors....

Penelope_Penguin

We have an exisitng thread on what to do about indoor slugs, so I'll merge this thread to give you more ideas

Penny. x

HairyHandofDartmoor

We have had a slug problem in many rented flats (try and avoid the ground floor!) and also in this house we live in now I used to find them in the kitchen.

I found a slug on the draining board several times late evening (yuk)
and inside one particular cupboard. The cupboard was damp because the draining board leaked and there must have been a gap from the outside which they were coming in through. Since we've had building work done on the kitchen we haven't seen a single slug! Presumably because it's no longer damp and we've filled up all the gaps from outside.

Salt is good until it gets wet; slug pellets work (until they get very wet), use organic if you're worried about children or pets; also copper wire works as suggested.

I would use all of the above methods and try to seal up all the gaps. Slugs can get through very, very small gaps, but try to seal up as many as you can. Slug pellets outside will also help to thin out the numbers in your garden. Foliage near the house may encourage them to lurk near to your house, so clearing this away may help.

I'm hoping that this cold winter will help to kill off some of the population as I detest the things!

kitschkitty

Problem with using slug pellets indoors is that they actually attract the slugs. Copper tape seems the safest option.

katholicos

You could leave some beer in a jar in the area where the slugs are journeying. I know its not very nice drowning your slugs but they will be attracted to the beer and slime their way up the jar and then fall in the jar so hey, no cleaning up after them either! Surely you would only have to do this a limited amount of times before you have captured most of the little blighters?

lelole

Hi,

Wasn't sure which board to put this on - as it's not really a moneysaving one as such - just hoping for some help, and I know there's a lot of knowledge here!

We have had a mystery fousty smell in our front room for several weeks, which we were kind of blaming on our potty age daughter, but have now discovered snail/slug trails on our carpet a few times when we get up in the morning...

So looks like we are somehow infested -yeeuch! This area is pretty bad for snails and slugs, we have lots in our garden, but didn't expect them in the house.

More worryingly it looks like the trails are coming from under the sofa, which funnily wnough is where we thought the smell might be coming from... Have had a look to see if there are any snails or anything under there, but can't see any...

We have actually sold our house and should be moving in the next few months, but I am worried about taking the sofa now - will we bring them with us accidentally *shudder*...

Any advice/ideas welcome,

Leah

pigpen

follow the trails back to where they originate in the room.. tip loads of salt where they start... probably a damp corner.. and if there are any visible holes fill them in.

The trails vacuum off when dry.

They don't like egg shells either if you have some of those to hand.

Rummer

Do you have cats? Our cats used to bring in slugs all the time and we spent our time hunting them out.