Artistic slugs?

I have got rid of the huge numbers we had when we first moved in here. Now if I see the odd one in the evening it gets scooped up and put over the fence to the neglected garden at the back.

I toss them over the wall into the shrubbery beyond. They have made an awful mess of my outside end wall. We have an ariel wire which runs down the wall and for some inexplicable reason, it has several silvery snail trails along its entire length. They must have been having a snail grand national up and down there. Anybody else got mountaineering molluscs?

shysal you should enter them for the Turner prize, worse things have won.

Great photo
Agree with trisher

Frogs keep the population down.
When we moved our shed we found dozens of empty shells.
Although we no longer have a pond
(because of DGC) we have at least one resident frog, think he must get in bird bath
so we don't seem get many slugs or snails.
The odd one I put in the garden waste bin, where they can then chomp away until go to wherever the garden waste goes to for an even bigger chomp!

Please don't use slug pellets the are harmful to pets and wild life

shysal I'm sure I read in a gardening mag that circular slime trails are a sign of amourous activity. So whatever you do with the critters you'll know they died happy!

My tiny pond ( think puddle) was full of newts in the Springtime. I have hardly noticed a slug or snail this Summer despite being plagued for years by them eating my annuals.
I hope the newts come back next year.
OH had a strange silvery line baked onto the bonnet of his car. Nothing would remove it and he was putting it down to tree sap. However, someone who knows about these things told him it was slug slime and Dettol wipes would remove it. They did.

I don't care how artistic they may appear to be I dispose of them - permanently! I like my flowers and veg without tbe attentions of slugs!

Salt!

Try bug repellent

Rats also eat snails and leave empty shells.

I throw them over the fence to the no man's land beyond and hope the birds eat them.

I think they make their way back though.

Do you realise that hyaluronic acid which is now found in many skincare products is a synthesised form of slug slime? At least I hope they don't get it by squeezing slugs.

I put them in a doggie bag and take them when we go for walks. They get dumped on the river bank about a mile away, too far for them to come back home (snails do home, just like pigeons). Field mice eat snails too!