Slugs and Slime

A Recent Slug Slime Trail in Our Driveway

We’ve got slugs around the house. And that’s just killing the wife, who has gone on slug-hunting expeditions in the early evening.

She gathers  them up and puts them in a pile, then throws salt on them, reveling in the way they squirm, exude their slime and shrivel up into a puddle of liquid. It’s something I learned a long time ago when I was a kid. Salt kills slugs.

If you don’t get rid of them, they leave their slime trails all over the place. Worse yet, they munch on plants. That’s what gets to the wife – the way they make meals out of her orchid plants.

I don’t blame her … they are ooky little creatures.