If you went outside now would you expect to see 100s of slugs/snails on it?

SexyGreyFox · 24 Aug 2016 at 23:12

Serious question, I can't say I've ever looked at my lawn at 11pm but I went to get my brown bin with my LED torch and was shocked.
I shouted the wife and eldest to come and look and they nearly barfed.
Is this normal or a problem?

http://www.disturbinthepeace.co.uk/pics3/slugs1.jpg
http://www.disturbinthepeace.co.uk/pics3/slugs2.jpg

And that's just a little tiny bit of the lawn.

413x · 24 Aug 2016 at 23:13

It's probably cause it's been very dry for a while and you've just had some rain?

Rannoch · 24 Aug 2016 at 23:14

Yikes.

G-MAN2004 · 24 Aug 2016 at 23:15

Can't say I've ever seen that before, and I'm out in my garden almost every night.

Sliver · 24 Aug 2016 at 23:15

Juicy delicious slugs, nom nom nom, aghhh.

diamount · 24 Aug 2016 at 23:19

The birds will have a feast in the morning.

FoxEye · 24 Aug 2016 at 23:20

Normal. Number of snails corresponds to the amount of hiding places you make available. They love to hide in pots - we have tons of pots on our garden and each harbours several snails during the daytime.

They also love hiding in bushes. There are literally bajillions of them in our Skmmia hedging. Quadrazillions, even.

d_brennen · 24 Aug 2016 at 23:20

Quick get a bucket, all that protein is getting away (slowly)!

FoxEye · 24 Aug 2016 at 23:22

diamount said:
The birds will have a feast in the morning.

Ours can't be arsed to eat snails. Too much effort. So many bird-feeders around that the snails openly taunt the birds, who are too lazy and fat to do anything about it.

The_Abyss · 24 Aug 2016 at 23:22

Where have you been all this summer? They're everywhere, and not just at night too!

Mynight · 24 Aug 2016 at 23:24

Ever seen the movie the birds? It like that but with slugs and much much slower.

Cern · 24 Aug 2016 at 23:24

Entirely normal. Hot dry spell followed by a bit of rain, especially at night, always brings the slugs and snails out in their droves. The lawn here is covered in them too.

unKle · 24 Aug 2016 at 23:27

Is that a beer trap in the 2nd pic?! You'll never get rid of them if it is, drunk rowdy slugs are all you need this time of night.

BDEE · 24 Aug 2016 at 23:27

I feel I have been click baited. I was expecting 100's, not what is in the photos, which is just a normal amount.

Annoyingly my puppy decides she likes to pick the snails up and run around with them in her mouth at this time of night..... :/

Cern · 24 Aug 2016 at 23:35

BDEE said:
I feel I have been click baited. I was expecting 100's, not what is in the photos, which is just a normal amount.

Annoyingly my puppy decides she likes to pick the snails up and run around with them in her mouth at this time of night..... :/

Heh, I was expecting something along the lines of a biblical plague of slugs too.

My labrador used to like to eat slugs and snails, he's since moved on to even less savoury 'delicacies', the less alive the better.

Diddums · 24 Aug 2016 at 23:36

Appropriate URL is appropriate

Craig321 · 24 Aug 2016 at 23:37

Awwww

doofer · 24 Aug 2016 at 23:38

You need a Hedgehog or salt. I get slugs in my kitchen occasionally, always a fun time treading on one unexpectedly with bare feet, no idea where/how they are getting in.

Shampoo · 24 Aug 2016 at 23:43

Bonjour · 24 Aug 2016 at 23:44

Loads of large slugs in our garden at the moment. There was a hedgehog feasting on them last week. Not seen a hedgehog locally in at least 25 years.

Stranger.. There was a huge leach in our garden a couple of months ago. We think it had been feasting on the worms in the compost heap (hence the size) and was released when we distributed the compost on the soil before planting our veggies.

Edit.. the leach in question: