Beautiful Slugs

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?

Pictures from Wikipedia Source.

Please click here for the very interesting National Geographic magazine article on Nudibranches (Sea Slugs). Article written by Jennifer S.Holland and fantastic Photography by David Doubilet.

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