Claire! Claire!! Claire!!!
Never! Never!! Never!!! ever ever actually PICK UP a slug with your BARE hands!!!

Yuck! Ugh! Shiver!

That slime is practically impossible to get rid of... the nastiest thing there is in the universe (short of a few politicians who shall remain nameless :)

Ack! Ack! Ack!
You're gonna give me nightmares!
ACK!!!!!!!!!!!!

ahhh, there's nothing like the sensation of a slug squishing up between your toes.

do slugs have any predators?
even my chickens are grossed-out by them.
which is a comforting thought as i grate
my hard-boiled egg on a spinach salad :)

yours in slime,
marsha

Perhaps bullfrogs eat slugs. Jed and Jethro's patron? said that she sees them heading into the garden at night, and that her slug population has gone way down.

Oh Jeff! simma down boy. Tain't nuttin wrong with slug slime - its natural.

Salt water will take it off Puppyscruff. Amphibians like to eat slugs and snails as do predatory snails (most of which are introduced, but who's complaining).

This is the time of year when you can find the monster big Shamu-the-killer-slugs. They fascinate me. Land dwelling sea creatures, complicated nervous system, no bones, create their own highway while they travel, cool cool cool.

John, you didn't look like a sadist when I met you...you are scaring me...no, not really, but now I'm going to google those monsters.

With Jeff, it's just "jeff being jeff." What would we do without him!

predatory snails ... isn't that a japanese monster flick?

Either that, m, or a really bad Ed Wood film! Anyway, we're filming this afternoon in my yard. Wanna come and play the scientist's wife? I'll do the cheezy art direction.

Either that, m, or a really bad Ed Wood film! Anyway, we're filming this afternoon in my yard. Wanna come and play the scientist's wife? I'll do the cheezy art direction.

I didn't mean to put salt water ON the slug. Slug slime doesn't always come off with simple water or even soapy water but salt does break it down quickly. I would never salt a slug.

If you see the snails that kinda lay their shell over to one side and seem to have 4 eye stalks - these guys only eat other mollusks. They prefer snails and slugs. Salamanders and newts also are fond of slugs.

When the weather cools I often find these 4-5 inch monster slugs in my yard. This year being so dry I doubt they have reached that size but you never know.... time to hunt me down some slug.

do i get to feed them the radioactive material that causes them to grow to japanese monster proportions? will the resulting gratuitous slug v snail battle destroy the town of sanford (*after* the fair, of course)?

Last week, my precious two year old little girl proudly brought me an enormous slimy slug carefully nestled in her tiny hands. I tried to hide my disgust because she was so proud, but man...ack!!! I am happy to say that I didn't scream at her: "Put that nasty @#$^#@%*ing thing down!!" I was calm(for once). After she wandered off, I did smoosh it though. Guess it could have been worse...we have dogs and a carefully nestled turd would have put me over the edge!!!:)

AWWWWW, Nettles, your daughter is a better human than you. I cradled a hornworm this afternoon and relocated him to the woods.

Wordsworth was right in saying that children come to us "trailing clouds of glory." It's all downhill from there. This is my misanthrope period, so bear with me.Only dogs and children can I bear to be around, also slugs and worms.

And, marsha, what makes you think YOU will be the one to feed stuff to the monster snails! Ok, you can. But I get to handfeed some of the locals... gov't and establishment types... to the biggest and ugliest slug...the one that looks like Jabba the Hut. I may need help from John in the art direction dept. to create Jabba and make him move....claymation, maybe.

It's going to be real easy to scoop these people up for the feeding frenzy...they are all congregated schmoozing at the FAIR! Yuk. I might throw the salt on them!

claire in sanford (soon to be dessimated by slime)

It's been bothering me that I spelled "decimate" wrong. It still doesn't look right, even though it is.

If those giant slugs get their suckers on you you'll be dessiCATED by slime! :-P

And truthfully, I just don't know about people who rescue slugs, rather than "smooshing" them... I mean, they're good for two things -- killing, and taking graphic pictures of their sex life :-P, though I must admit I couldn't bring myself to smoosh the two I photographed "getting it on" last year.

Slughaters of the world unite!
:-P

Prepare to A-Slime-inate, resistance is futile!

I will admit that I am a romantic about flora and fauna...a sometimes hypocritical one. I do things like cradle bugs/capture snakes and relocate them. I transplant unwanted self-sowed seedlings to the wild. But then I will schmoosh an ant in the kitchen if I feel aggravated or throw out a pile of baby plants if I'm too tired.

I know I don't act my age or appear "normal," but I try to be honest about my quirkiness.

peace, claire in sanford (listening to that steady rain)

"Normal???" What's that? I thought that was a fictional town in Ohio where John Goodman was on a very short-lived sitcom... that's the only "normal" I know. :)

You mean like the scene in Ghost Busters where they all get slimed??? Jim

gosh, jeff, you've got graphic slug-sex pics and you haven't shared them? shame on you for holdin' out on us!

"act your age" and "normal" ... well, that exludes me!

marsha

Thanks a lot guys! Last night I dreamed that my yard was infested with fat 5 inch long slugs. Everytime I dug in with the shovel there would be 3 or 4 of them in the hole. Gross! -Ais.

OOOOOOOOOO-aaaahhhhh, Ais! At least it wasn't a casserole you were digging into.

You need to see the film Tremors with Kevin Bacon, that'll either cure you or drive you nuts, and then I can get my crown back!!!

The slugs having sex is posted over in the pond gallery. Someone added a music track, and it is hilarious!!!!!Disturbing, but hilarious!

Now I KNOW I'm OLD! It's Saturday night and I'm going over to the "pond forum" to do a little voyeuring of some hot slug sex! I hope it doesn't get me horny...then I'll really have to give up this G-W habit and get some therapy.

View my Slug Sex thread in the Gallery section of the ponds and aquatic plants forum all you want, guys, but PLEASE, nobody respond to it... I'm holding off until it's just ABOUT to drop off the end of the second page before I finish it off with one, final post (it's been at 99 replies for about 7 weeks now, and is the oldest thread in the Ponds forum by about a year, being 13 months old and growing, now :)

Heck, as much work as I put into taking, uploading and posting all those pics, I reckon it SHOULDA lasted a while, huh?

Now I see why you are not upset about my little thread stealing your thunder! You've got it "going on" in another forum! I will resist the temptation to respond to it, lest I get another "giant frog in the face". No more big frogs... no more big frogs... no more big frogs... -Ais.

Aislinn, if the newly implemented rules change that stole YOUR thunder in your second "copperheads" thread also applies to galleries, my slugsex thread might hang around even longer than I had thought...

All I can say is it's about time GW got around to eliminating the 100-reply limit, something most other forums have never had, to begin with... Then again, I haven't found any place else on the internet that has this many different forums available all in one place, for free, so I'm thinking Spike implemented that to keep his service free, as otherwise he would have quickly had to start charging to cover the cost of all the increased server sized required for longer threads... I'm assuming iVillage has MUCH larger resources behind it.

this is the 2nd reference i've seen to "spike" ... is that the name of the individual who started GW?

That's the "name" he went by... "Spike Fernandez."

Turned out his real name was Bob something... can't remember offhand... a forum member who also belongs to another forum I frequent started by an EX-gardenwebber who got REALLY pissed at Spike and started his own forum after Spike said, "If you don't like the way I run the forum, start your own," listed his full name and address, plus a picture, back from the EARLY days of Gardenweb when he was naive enough to let folks know such stuff, I guess, over on THAT forum, which is primarily for folks who are tropical plants afficianados, but has a couple sections JUST for talking about WHATEVER, which is all I visit, mostly. (Wow, talk about a COMPLEX sentence!)

That forum is commonly called "The Jungle," used to be officially "Spectre's Underground Jungle," but he just redid it and shortened the name... not sure if I can or should link to it here, but anyone who's interested in checking it out may feel free to email me.

OK, Marsha, so are you now THOROUGHLY confused?
:)

I wonder if Spike made himself a little chunk o' change when he sold out to iVillage. It's nice to know that someone with such benign intentions can do well with a dot-com. I like his alias too.

Wonder what the ratio of success to failure is with these sites....probably a lot worse than with new restaurant opentings.