Kelz
Archachatina marginata
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Post by Kelz on Jun 28, 2007 16:22:52 GMT
I was in my garden yesterday evening after we had a shower of rain and all of the slugs and snails were out. I noticed that a couple of snails had big brown slugs on them. Do slugs rasp snails? It looked as though they were and so I flicked the slugs off. I love the snails but not fond of slugs.
Silly question I know... but I'm full of them. ;D
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Post by mickysnail on Jun 28, 2007 20:59:13 GMT
It is not silly. I have witnessed this a few times. Some species of slug do rasp snails. Maybe it is their way of obtaining some extra nutrients? mickysnail
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Arno
Archachatina puylaerti
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Post by Arno on Jun 28, 2007 21:29:59 GMT
I never noticed this,but I wouldn't be surprised,the slugs in my garden are voracious beasts......
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Post by snaillover31 on Jun 29, 2007 4:03:23 GMT
i have never seen this, but i dont doubt it.
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Post by Robert Nordsieck on Jun 29, 2007 6:57:21 GMT
Hi there, many slugs are at least omnivores, some, especially the semi-slug species, even are carnivores. There is one picture, that I took a year ago in Hessia in Germany: There is a juvenile Lusitanian slug ( Arion lusitanicus) feeding on a lapidary snail ( Helicigona lapicida).  A larger picture you could see in my gallery, which, alas, is only in German. There is another picture, which I took a week ago: A great grey slug (aka. leopard or tiger slug, Limax maximus) is crawling after an Arion slug (another Lusitanian Arion lusitanicus?), and as Limax maximus is an omnivore with a tendency to cannibalism and carnivory, I even thought about, whether it was about to eat the Lusitanian?  This picture you can also see at the gallery. There is also a homepage of mine concerning slugs: > Slugs - Life (Almost) Without a Shell. Kind regards Robert |
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spook
Achatina immaculata
Posts: 274
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Post by spook on Jun 29, 2007 8:44:23 GMT
Checked out your gallery Robert! Some good photos in there  |
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mary
Archachatina marginata
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Post by mary on Jul 3, 2007 0:23:29 GMT
Robert Nice page!  |
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Post by lippy on Jul 4, 2007 9:52:35 GMT
Never mind Nice Page, i nominate that for post of the year!
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Post by lorisarvendu on Jul 5, 2007 10:37:59 GMT
It is not silly. I have witnessed this a few times. Some species of slug do rasp snails. Maybe it is their way of obtaining some extra nutrients? mickysnail We have noticed that our tortoise sometimes has slugs on board. Perhaps they're getting a bit of calcium from his shell? |
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