Slugs? You say ‘throw pellets at em!’

So we asked, what’s your preferred slug killing method and you voted. Here are the results of our poll, The Big Bad Slug.

The clear winner with over a third of the votes was for slug pellets, the second was for ‘other’, but we shall go into that in more detail in a moment. Building barriers came in third followed by salt, skewer/scissors (eeek) and finally feeding to the birds.

Here’s your Slug Killing ideas which nearly a fifth of voters selected showing us that we had not mentioned a number of other deterrents.

• Beer – by far the most popular choice, the ‘sink or swim’ method
• Ducks and Chickens – a tasty snack apparently
• Natural predators and growing other plants for slugs – keeping it organic
• Copper wire and nematodes also got a mention too.

Some of you clearly feel quite strongly, suggesting we ‘pick them up at night and teach them to fly into the main road’, or the suggestion that made us all squirm in the office, ‘cut them up into little pieces and have them for dinner’. Nice.

So there you have it, if slugs are being a problem now you have solutions to try out. Although, I have tried a bit of slug ‘javelin’ in the past but I personally don’t have the stomach for any seasoning, skewering, chopping or even eating for that matter!

All the talk of slugs in the office got everyones creative juices flowing. Below you can find our shocking attempts to try and sketch the ultimate Big Bad Slug.

So you can sleep at night you’ll be happy to know that these nasty pieces of work are no longer on the loose. They were all picked up by the Pellet Police during a midnight raid on Daisy Boots cabbage patch. They’re currently being held at Slugtanamo Bay detention camp. This is a high security facility where these elusive seven slugs will await identification and a relatively fair trial.

Have you seen these slugs before, can you ID them? If you recognise any of these individuals you must act by leaving their names in the comment box below. See these suspects again on the BBC tonight at 10pm – Slug Crime Watch. “Don’t have nightmares”