New food item

[adamanteus]

I've seen pictures, but never a real one. Maybe we should open a slug forum. But if we do, I'm not joining!!

[Gyre]

I'm not bothered by anything little, slimy or crunchy, lol, but my poor gandfather stepped, (barefoot) on a HUGE leopard slug..
http://images.google.com/images?q=tb...ages/limax.jpg

It says they only grow to four inches, but i see a lot that are at least six, six and half.. What makes this story amazingly rich, is that my grampa couldn't look at earthworms and not shudder... It was so funny.

The leopard slug mating ritual is also pretty cool.. Slug acrobatics.

[adamanteus]

I once read somewhere that Australia has a venomous slug! What's the point of that?

"Oh no! It's a venomous slug! Run away, tomorrow!"

[GarterGuy]

I once read somewhere that Australia has a venomous slug! What's the point of that?

"Oh no! It's a venomous slug! Run away, tomorrow!"

It's Australia.......don't they have to have a venomous everything!

[adamanteus]

Yes Ryan, that's what I have found. The tan/beige ones are the only ones that seem palatable to snakes.

[Thamnophis]

That venomous slug from Australia... wouldn't that be a sea-slug?

[adamanteus]

That venomous slug from Australia... wouldn't that be a sea-slug?

I really don't know, Fons. I read it somewhere years ago, and just thought "What? Where's the point in that?"

[Thamnophis]

I can imagine that a (sea)snail that catches other animals to eat is venomous.
But when a landsnail is venomous it might protect him/her from being eaten because he doesn't taste that good.
Like Bufo marinus...

[adamanteus]

I was thinking of the distinction between venomous and poisonous. Poisonous, bad to eat....venomous, bad to get bitten or stung by!

[KITKAT]

There's also a dif between poisonous and toxic.

Poisonous = life threatening

Toxic = makes you nice and sick