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Thursday 5 July 2012

Gastropod Gastronome

Yesterday evening (Wed) at 2040hrs I watched this brown slug feeding on the black ruptured one. Just wearing reading glasses I could see it's mouthparts moving up and down; pity I couldn't recapture it using the camera.
At 0840hrs today Thursday, there were two black slugs clearing up the last mouthful. Waste not, Want not.

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3 comments:

  1. Recently for the past year or so the black slug has been mainly replaced by snails in Queensbury gardens.
    Going back a few years snails were not to be found but are increasing rapidly and can be found in large numbers, much to the dismay of bedding plants.

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  2. You're quite right. I used to love seeing proper big snails at Grandmas in Wales and on hols with parents in Scarborough - they were non-exsistent in Halifax. We just had those small transparent-shelled ones under stones.
    Even after we had our kids I remember watching with interest snails coming out on a rainy evening in Plymouth while we waited for the ferry to France in 1980s.

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  3. Thats right Steve, when we were kids we were amazed to see snails in the rockery gardens at Bridlington.

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