Even though the weather this year has not been good for my fruit or my sinuses, it apparently has been good for slugs. Usually, I see one of perhaps two of these fat fellows (typically longer than any of my fingers) a day while in the paddock or dealing with my tomatoes, but this year they’re all over the place, to the tune of half a dozen or more every time I go outside, and they’re bigger than usual (like, some about as big as a typical hot dog). In the morning I’ll often find one eating the dregs out of Cicero’s bowl; this year it’s sometimes two, and one morning last week I found four (and one was the aforementioned jumbo size). One day I walked to the mailbox and saw several crossing the lane, then later I looked out the kitchen window and saw two crossing my driveway (big enough to see from the kitchen window). I would imagine the ravens eat them, but I haven’t seen many of those around lately. Anyway, I thought those of y’all who aren’t squeamish about creepy-crawlies might like this picture, which I took on the macro setting to show detail; the artificial “shutter” sound must’ve startled it, because right after I took this it retracted its “horns” for a bit. I also had a good one of a slug in the barn, but as it was crawling on pony poop and the underside wasn’t as visible as in this shot, I decided to use this one. You’re welcome.
Archive for August 27th, 2024
Diary #739
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