“They’re slugtastic!”

SLUGS

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• Most slugs will eat plants, fungus, decaying vegetable material..

• but some are even predators (somehow!).

* I have heard cucumbers are popular with slugs.

What do slugs eat?

• Lizards

• spiders

• snakes

• raccoons

• little kids

• big kids

• adults

• and they are a delicacy in many countries

What eat slugs?

• Movement: Slugs use slime, as well as suction power, to travel upside down and up trees and other vertical things. That’s why Slugs leave a slime trail behind them as they move.

• Defense: When in danger, the slug is able to emit a thick mucus coating, and makes its body shorter and fatter. This makes it more difficult to eat them, as well as giving themselves a coating with an unpleasant taste to potential predators

• Water retention: Slugs can fit into almost any space due to their ability to become very long and thin or short and fat. Their slime helps them fit through a tight squeeze. They can avoid sunlight by crawling into small crevices and holes. Their slime also helps keep water in their bodies, an important factor in survival

How do SLUGS use or sense energy to benefit itself?

• Reproduction: Mating rituals of banana slugs take place in a thick blanket of slime. Banana slugs sometimes eat each other's slime before mating!

• Nutrition: Slugs have been seen eating slime and debris collected at their tails. It is possible that slime could have a nutritional purpose

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•Find prey?

•Avoid predators?

•Find mates?

•All of these are correct ! They use their slime to find mates and to avoid predators and to find prey because like they eat their own slime sometimes too!

What is the slug used for?

•Slugs are pretty weird .

•Slugs are like snails .

•Slugs make good pets.

•It probably tastes nasty to eat.

•Also if Slugs are a delicacy in some countries , It’s prob healthy for you.

In conclusion

BUY THIS SLUG!!!!!!Reasons why : 1) They may

be healthy to eat

2) They make great pets

3) You can’t find slugs at black markets , so it’s easier to buy it here

4) Lastly you can never lose it because , there will be a track of slime leading you to the slug!

Pictures : www.google.com/slugs

Facts : http://www.manandmollusc.net/amazing_facts.html

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