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I don’t tend to post many slugs on this blog, although I have photographed quite a few, because I realise they are probably not everyones favourite animal. Yet I think this particular one with its gold speckling which are chromatophores (pigment cells) catches the eye and stand out amongst a world of slithering slugs.
It is called the Brown Soil Slug (Arion (Kobeltia) distinctus), and I often come across it in the garden.
The 2nd image down shows a slug mite Riccardoella (Proriccardoella) oudemansi crawling just below the mantle. Called the White Slug Mite, it is a parasite which infest the lungs of slugs and snails feeding on the hosts blood.
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I’m in the “they are not my favorite” camp, Peter, but the color and texture on these is remarkable. Excellent captures.
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Thank you, Ellen. I know slugs and snails aren’t everbodies cup of tea, and as a gardener myself I can undesrstand that … but I still appreciate them to some extent 🙂
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The very fact that they survive and thrive is worthy of some appreciation, Peter.
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Maybe gardners love them more now 😉
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🙂 Somehow I don’t think so, lol!
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Nemesis! 😀
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🙂
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It does look metallic. I wonder if anyone would dare wear that as a piece of jewelry. Well, not the slug but a replica. 🙂
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I am glad you didn’t mean the real thing, lol 🙂
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As slugs go it’s a pretty good looking one – just don’t want it in my garden!
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🙂
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It’s not just the color but the patterning that makes it attractive to my eye. Not only that, the segments remind me of a licorice candy from childhood called Good and Plenty. Odd, the associations that arise.
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We had something very similar called liquorice comfits.
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Oh how slugs drive me mad. But I agree, Pete. This is an interesting one. Apart from that – bring on the slug mites!
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Reminds me of Bonds “Goldfinger” 😉 I never saw this slug before. Astonishing colours!
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Lol! 🙂 Thank you 🙂 The Slug with The Golden Gunge 😉
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Hahaha!!
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