Slug tastes

windy miller, if I were you, I would paint the outside shell with a bright colour first as they say that slugs will find their way back again. If they come back then its heavy boot time! :D

 

The speed the eldest lobs them, I'm surprised they don't make a sonic boom :D
Homing slugs - perhaps we could start a comp, where we release them at certain distances from home and see who's the fastest back :D :D

 

:D I suggest painting yours in British racing green! :D

 

I don't believe slugs/snails travel long distances back to where they were, that only makes sense if there's no food source where they are.

 

I agree with Jay - it sounds like a myth to me. How can you tell one individual slug from another?

 

Snails have shells, slugs don't!

 

I don't see why they would bother moving if there's a good food source where they are. So make sure you throw them into some lush weeds!

 

I just came across this page and I am laughing so much that I can hardly type, have to keep wiping my eyes and holding my stomach. I detest slugs, I find them disgusting and what some of you wrote was just too much. The one on the glass was of course the worst, followed by fish-finger tasting ones (will I ever be able to eat fish-fingers again?) Frilly ones / hovercrafts, a scream! Oh, I must read this side again for another really good laugh. By the way, we collect ours. I go first with a long stick and push the leaves away, then my hubby comes with a long-handled tong (our "slug tong") to pick them off and drops them in a bucket of salty water. This kills them off quicker than anything else and you don't have to touch them at all. Dispose in a corner of the compost heap.