Beautiful Slugs

Posted on 14. Jun, 2008 by Tracey in Pests

After recently writing and reading a few other people’s blog entries (Vegmonkey and the Mrs, Greenforks and Fresh as a Daisy) about our ruthless british slug and its attack on our vegetable gardens, it was nice to come across a different type of slug.

Beautiful slugs are two words not normally put together especially when talking about british land slugs.

In an article I was reading in National Geographic magazine, the slugs cousins who dwell in the world’s seas and oceans are beautiful creatures with vivid colours. However they are much more deadly with their toxic slime trails and and stinger cells.

Why don’t garden slugs look like this?