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MM
Oct 9, 2012, 7:30:31 AM10/9/12
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I noticed the vile little creatures as I was coming down the stairs.
There were a dozen of them on the plastic threshold just inside the
front door. I scraped them up and dumped them in the garden. They were
about 10mm to 30mm long and alive (wriggling). Quite disgusting, since
I am squeamish about such things.
So what could I do to prevent them in future? I assume they're
attracted to the warmth of the house.
MM
There were a dozen of them on the plastic threshold just inside the
front door. I scraped them up and dumped them in the garden. They were
about 10mm to 30mm long and alive (wriggling). Quite disgusting, since
I am squeamish about such things.
So what could I do to prevent them in future? I assume they're
attracted to the warmth of the house.
MM
Baz
Oct 9, 2012, 8:03:29 AM10/9/12
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"MM" <kyli...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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Salt or Slug Pellets. I have yet to find a gun to that the pellets.
Baz
Mentalguy2k8
Oct 9, 2012, 11:10:13 AM10/9/12
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>I noticed the vile little creatures as I was coming down the stairs.
> There were a dozen of them on the plastic threshold just inside the
> front door. I scraped them up and dumped them in the garden. They were
> about 10mm to 30mm long and alive (wriggling). Quite disgusting, since
> I am squeamish about such things.
>
> So what could I do to prevent them in future?
Tell your fan club only to contact you via email, home visits are a no-no
> There were a dozen of them on the plastic threshold just inside the
> front door. I scraped them up and dumped them in the garden. They were
> about 10mm to 30mm long and alive (wriggling). Quite disgusting, since
> I am squeamish about such things.
>
> So what could I do to prevent them in future?
ARW
Oct 9, 2012, 1:11:12 PM10/9/12
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Your hallway is never heated:-)
How wide were the worms?
--
Adam
MM
Oct 10, 2012, 4:37:35 AM10/10/12
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On Tue, 9 Oct 2012 13:03:29 +0100, "Baz" <bras...@REMOVEmsn.com>
wrote:
I've sprinkled salt along the brass channel in the threshold. Let's
see if the buggers dare to cross that. There were two more this
morning, and that's when I decided on the salt.
MM
wrote:
see if the buggers dare to cross that. There were two more this
morning, and that's when I decided on the salt.
MM
MM
Oct 10, 2012, 4:41:52 AM10/10/12
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>How wide were the worms?
wriggly things. I expect that Dirk Diggler chappie from The One Show
would get all starry-eyed over them, but I just find slugs and snails
utterly repellent.
MM
Martin Brown
Oct 10, 2012, 4:42:22 AM10/10/12
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You would do much better with a few slug pellets.
--
Regards,
Martin Brown
MM
Oct 10, 2012, 9:37:41 AM10/10/12
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On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:42:22 +0100, Martin Brown
<|||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>You would do much better with a few slug pellets.
Placed in the brass channel instead of the salt? How big are these
<|||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>You would do much better with a few slug pellets.
pellets?
MM
Andy Champ
Oct 10, 2012, 3:37:51 PM10/10/12
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Andy
ARW
Oct 10, 2012, 4:10:36 PM10/10/12
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Adam
S Viemeister
Oct 10, 2012, 4:36:02 PM10/10/12
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MM
Oct 11, 2012, 3:40:27 AM10/11/12
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On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 20:37:51 +0100, Andy Champ <no....@nospam.invalid>
wrote:
It was the other poster who said they were baby slugs. They definitely
wriggle when I'm brushing them on to my dustpan whence they are thrown
on to the lawn. The underside -- though I don't look too close since
I find them so repellent -- looks silvery, but the body is jet black.
*IF* another manages to get past my barriers of salt, slug pellets and
the nuclear attack helicopters, I'll try to stop my gorge rising long
enough to take a closer look ;)
It's a pain being squeamish, but I always have been. Funny, though, I
don't mind spiders, beetles, wasps, bees etc. I'm always helping
spiders and daddy-long-legs out of the bath by coaxing them on to a
towel.
MM
wrote:
wriggle when I'm brushing them on to my dustpan whence they are thrown
on to the lawn. The underside -- though I don't look too close since
I find them so repellent -- looks silvery, but the body is jet black.
*IF* another manages to get past my barriers of salt, slug pellets and
the nuclear attack helicopters, I'll try to stop my gorge rising long
enough to take a closer look ;)
It's a pain being squeamish, but I always have been. Funny, though, I
don't mind spiders, beetles, wasps, bees etc. I'm always helping
spiders and daddy-long-legs out of the bath by coaxing them on to a
towel.
MM
MM
Oct 11, 2012, 3:46:12 AM10/11/12
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MM
Martin Brown
Oct 11, 2012, 3:53:51 AM10/11/12
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most other things that consume it. That is why they make the pellets
blue so that birds don't notice them. Any non specific insecticide would
probably see them off quickly too.
Salt will kill them but it will ruin the brasswork in the process.
The OP could perhaps ask someone else to take a macro photo of the
things and then we might stand a chance of ID.
--
Regards,
Martin Brown
MM
Oct 11, 2012, 7:55:11 AM10/11/12
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:53:51 +0100, Martin Brown
came out this morning, but they were tiny. Maybe some more will
approach in the next few days. I was right, though, about the silvery
underside.
MM
<|||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>On 10/10/2012 20:37, Andy Champ wrote:
>> On 10/10/2012 14:37, MM wrote:
>>> On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:42:22 +0100, Martin Brown
>>> <|||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You would do much better with a few slug pellets.
>>>
>>> Placed in the brass channel instead of the salt? How big are these
>>> pellets?
>>>
>>
>> Wriggly doesn't sound like slugs anyway. Photo?
>
>Maybe not but a generic molluscicide like metaldehyde will also kill
>most other things that consume it. That is why they make the pellets
>blue so that birds don't notice them. Any non specific insecticide would
>probably see them off quickly too.
>
>Salt will kill them but it will ruin the brasswork in the process.
>
>The OP could perhaps ask someone else to take a macro photo of the
>things and then we might stand a chance of ID.
There were one or two lined up in front of the door (outside) when I
>On 10/10/2012 20:37, Andy Champ wrote:
>> On 10/10/2012 14:37, MM wrote:
>>> On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:42:22 +0100, Martin Brown
>>> <|||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You would do much better with a few slug pellets.
>>>
>>> Placed in the brass channel instead of the salt? How big are these
>>> pellets?
>>>
>>
>> Wriggly doesn't sound like slugs anyway. Photo?
>
>Maybe not but a generic molluscicide like metaldehyde will also kill
>most other things that consume it. That is why they make the pellets
>blue so that birds don't notice them. Any non specific insecticide would
>probably see them off quickly too.
>
>Salt will kill them but it will ruin the brasswork in the process.
>
>The OP could perhaps ask someone else to take a macro photo of the
>things and then we might stand a chance of ID.
came out this morning, but they were tiny. Maybe some more will
approach in the next few days. I was right, though, about the silvery
underside.
MM
Andy Champ
Oct 11, 2012, 3:23:08 PM10/11/12
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On 11/10/2012 12:55, MM wrote:
> There were one or two lined up in front of the door (outside) when I
> came out this morning, but they were tiny. Maybe some more will
> approach in the next few days. I was right, though, about the silvery
> underside.
Silverfish? I don't know if you want to google for pictures of them or
> There were one or two lined up in front of the door (outside) when I
> came out this morning, but they were tiny. Maybe some more will
> approach in the next few days. I was right, though, about the silvery
> underside.
not...
Can be a right PITA to get rid of.
Andy
Paul Herber
Oct 11, 2012, 3:43:46 PM10/11/12
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:23:08 +0100, Andy Champ <no....@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>On 11/10/2012 12:55, MM wrote:
>> There were one or two lined up in front of the door (outside) when I
>> came out this morning, but they were tiny. Maybe some more will
>> approach in the next few days. I was right, though, about the silvery
>> underside.
>
>Silverfish? I don't know if you want to google for pictures of them or
>not...
or millipedes.
>On 11/10/2012 12:55, MM wrote:
>> There were one or two lined up in front of the door (outside) when I
>> came out this morning, but they were tiny. Maybe some more will
>> approach in the next few days. I was right, though, about the silvery
>> underside.
>
>Silverfish? I don't know if you want to google for pictures of them or
>not...
--
Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd.
http://www.sandrila.co.uk/
robgraham
Oct 11, 2012, 6:01:35 PM10/11/12
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On Oct 11, 8:45 am, MM <kylix...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:36:02 -0400, S Viemeister
>
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:36:02 -0400, S Viemeister
>
Rob
Jules Richardson
Oct 11, 2012, 9:56:33 PM10/11/12
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:23:08 +0100, Andy Champ wrote:
> Silverfish? I don't know if you want to google for pictures of them or
> not...
I've only ever seen them indoors, not outdoors and trying to get in -
> Silverfish? I don't know if you want to google for pictures of them or
> not...
although I suppose they have to come from *somewhere* :-)
MM
Oct 12, 2012, 2:29:36 AM10/12/12
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:23:08 +0100, Andy Champ <no....@nospam.invalid>
wrote:
>On 11/10/2012 12:55, MM wrote:
>> There were one or two lined up in front of the door (outside) when I
>> came out this morning, but they were tiny. Maybe some more will
>> approach in the next few days. I was right, though, about the silvery
>> underside.
>
>Silverfish? I don't know if you want to google for pictures of them or
>not...
No! Silverfish are tiny and are, er, kinda fish-shaped. These look
like little black worms.
MM
wrote:
>On 11/10/2012 12:55, MM wrote:
>> There were one or two lined up in front of the door (outside) when I
>> came out this morning, but they were tiny. Maybe some more will
>> approach in the next few days. I was right, though, about the silvery
>> underside.
>
>Silverfish? I don't know if you want to google for pictures of them or
>not...
like little black worms.
MM
MM
Oct 12, 2012, 2:32:03 AM10/12/12
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appears. I'm still stuck with the salt barrier at the moment, since
none of the shops I tried yesterday have slug pellets, it now being
the run-up to Christmas. I'll have to make a special trip to a garden
centre.
MM
F Murtz
Oct 12, 2012, 8:02:03 AM10/12/12
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S Viemeister
Oct 12, 2012, 9:31:09 AM10/12/12
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MM
Oct 12, 2012, 1:37:05 PM10/12/12
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MM
ARW
Oct 12, 2012, 2:34:39 PM10/12/12
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A newcomer to the camp asks about the sex life and is told that every 6
months a train of camels pass by and everyone then gets a bit of sexual
relief.
About 3 months later a shout goes up that the camels are passing and
everyone starts running towards the camels. The newcomer asks "What's the
rush?" and his sergeant shouts back over his shoulder "Well you do not want
to fuck an an ugly one do you?"
--
Adam
MM
Oct 13, 2012, 2:51:20 AM10/13/12
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A newcomer to the camp asks about the sex life and is told that every
6 months a train of camels pass by and everyone then gets a bit of
sexual relief.
About 3 months later a shout goes up that the camels are passing and
the rush?" and his sergeant shouts back over his shoulder "Well, the
camel herder has this nubile daughter who is up for anything, but you
have to get in there quick." And the bloke looked sheepish and said,
"Aw shit, I just fucked one of the camels!"
MM
meow...@care2.com
Oct 13, 2012, 8:17:49 AM10/13/12
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NT :)
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