[Oliver]

I watched Springwatch the other evening (now that the otherone has left) and saw the amazing Leopard Slug. I have only ever seen long orange and yellow ones, a brown one eating a snail ( :blink:) and small black ones that eat potatoes but don't know any of their names. So to learn the name of one, and see it, and learn that it is a 'good guy', (check out the site below), was very interesting.  So imagine my amazement when I went to the plot and, while looking for a large pot, found a Leopard Slug! And then found another. I put them together in a safe place so they don't accidentally eat the snail bait. So all I need to do now is keep an eye on them on a fine moist night to see the other. But I rather think I don't have the patience of Simon King and David Attenborough!

http://naturenet.net/blogs/index.php/2007/09/03/slugging_it_out
Oliver (right next to my shed they were, too)
This is a picture I took of a brown slug eating a snail. The amazing things you see on the plot...

[8doubles]

That would be a french gourmet vampire slug in the photo,
can i borrow` im , her , it .

[oldbean]

It's a pity there are so many who think "a shark's a shark", "a weed's a weed", "a slug's a slug". Let's hope they will learn something new one day.

[sunshineband]

Slug bait is not fussy which slugs eat it of course 


Worth a thought 

[chimaera]

I agree; the garden can be every bit as exciting as an African safari, it is just a question of scale. Last year I spent ages watching the goings on on the underside of a Virbascum leaf where herds of greenfly were being attacked by ladybirds and their larvae while ants fought to protect them.

Charlie

[barney rubble]

I still don't want them in my kitchen tho