Mystery 'slime'on chopping boards

Do you own a cat or dog? I've found my cat carry them in on his under belly ? (he's a big ginger Tom cat and as you've probably all guessed his belly is rather low to the ground ????)..... Slugs make me feel sick. Can't bear the blighters ?

Bumping this up as it appears to have suffered the usual fate of threads I contribute to - killed stone dead!

We used to live in a 300+ year old farmhouse.
Friends were due to come up from London once for Sunday lunch and I was horrified to fling open the sitting room door (tidied the night before and no children allowed in ) to find slug trails cross crossing the dark brown carpet.
Not the best advertisement for the joys of country living.

We had a terrible problem with slugs in the kitchen. Apart from slug trails in the morning there was no sign of them, but if I came down during the night there were often a few crawling around. They were disgusting! Very pale and ghostly looking., Fortunately for us we were having a lot of building work being done in the kitchen, including new units. Stripping out the old ones and replastering allnthe walls, seems to have solved the problem. But that is a slightly extreme solution.

I can understand that Whiff whoever thought that was a good name for a colour

Did you know Dulux have a colour called snail trail. It's a nice pale grey. But decided to go with frosted steel.

When I threw away a Basil plant from a supermarket that had been on our window sill, I took it out of the pot, in the soil at the bottom were 2 slugs.
Yuk , yuk, no more herbs in the kitchen!

I once watched a slug ‘escape’ through the door jamb as I tried to dispose of it. There wasn’t a space that I could see but it managed it quickly and easily. Can anyone else smell them? I’m sure they have a sickly sweet smell. Ugh!

Put a container of beer down near your chopping boards, the slugs can’t resist it, crawl in for a drink and then drown as they are sozzled !!

Our cat has a very fluffy tail and sometimes slugs will ‘hitch a ride’ and they end up every where!

you could at least have topped the bowl up for them lemon!

Once went into the kitchen in our old house ,put the light on and saw two big slugs ( obviously mates) sucking on cat biscuits.They actually looked up at me! Arrrrrrgggggh.

I once lived in an old farmhouse which was full of slugs. If I found them I picked them up in toilet paper and flushed them down the loo. One night at bed time I went into the kitchen for a drink and by mistake stepped on one, making a horrible mess on the stone floor. As I was tired I decided to leave cleaning it up until the morning. Next morning the mess was gone, with only some slug trails leading to where it had been. Evidently other slugs had eaten it in the night.

They are totally repulsive Arum ?

Phoenix, those stripey slugs may well be the leopard slugs ... (Limax maximus) (literally, "great slug"), also known as the great grey slug this is one of the largest kinds of keeled air-breathing land slug in the world. A beautiful slug that actually eats small slugs and their eggs. as this species is not regarded as a plant pest.
The preferred diet of the leopard slug is fungi, dead plant or animal matter making it a useful species to have around. Easily recognisable with its leopard-like spots, the species can grow up to 16cm and is commonly found in parkland, woodland and gardens.
Take a look at the pic below. They are my absolute favourite slugs in my garden.

Be very careful where you put salt. I once spread it over my back door mat and under my door. After leaving it for a few days, I noticed that the screws in the upvc door frame had gone rusty and the skirting board paint was blistered! And I never saw evidence that a slug had been affected by the salt.

Last night I woke up at 2am and went to get a drink of water, there was a slug on the floor! I think reading this post before I went to sleep somehow conjured one up!

Like others, this does sound like slugs. I have them occasionally in my hall having got in under the front door. How impossible to discover since the door fits well and no draught. They must be able to squeeze themselves very flat.

I find their presence late evening when going to bed. Strange thing is I never see any in my garden.

If it's a slug it would have to climb up the side of the work counter, they don't jump. Kept finding trails in my mother' s kitchen once and eventually caught one sliding under the door from garden. Fitted a rigid draught excluder, problem solved!

kircubbin2000

Why not tidy them away at night.

Best leave the chopping boards out to remind you to wipe down the worksurfaces every morning before putting anything on them...ugh
At least you're then given notice there has been a visitation.

Slightly off piste but we have some chopping boards which slot into a box for storage
(Joseph) they are not big ones but serve the purpose, go in the dishwasher and are safe from slugs in their box.

Please don't use slug pellets, if a bird or hedgehog eats the poisoned slug it will die ????

We get overnight slugs too. Luckily not on worksurfaces - well at least I hope not, we just see trails on the floor. But following them to where a skug might be getting in is impossible.

Agree with bluebell.. they are part of the animal food chain.

Maybe it (or they) don't need to secrete slime to travel over a smooth worktop. We had one in the extension, after the cat food. It came and went through a tiny gap between the floorboards!

Some years ago I moved into a property that had recently had a new kitchen installed. I used to find slug trails all across the kitchen floor in the morning and yet there was no sign of the little blighters! This went on for days and I decided that, as the floor was tiled over concrete they had to be hiding behind the kitchen base units. I empty kilos of salt behind cupboards etc...........no more slug trails!