SLUGS AS CARNIVORES
Donald A. Windsor
As you watch slugs
voraciously devour your garden plants, you probably regard them as
herbivores. However, they do have a carnivorous side.
Slugs in the species
Limax marginata are occasionally seen feasting on road-killed
frogs and toads. On our Bullthistle hike Sunday morning 3 September
2017, we encountered this fest of slugs dining on a road-killed
Red Eft (larval stage of the Red-spotted Newt).
The photo was
snapped by Maryann Weiss on the Truck Trail through the Whaupaunaucau
State Forest in North Norwich.
I have heard of
using beer to attract slugs, but perhaps road-kill might work better.
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