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Red Slug out for a stroll
These are very common in the forests of Southern Germany where I live but still pretty cool. After it rains, there are hundreds on the trails in any forest. I have always wondered why no predator after all the time of evolution has apparently ever developed a taste for such a readily available food source (although I have read that some reptiles and even Hedgehogs will eat them on occasion).
The red slug, also known as the chocolate arion or the European red slug, Arion rufus, is a large land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs. This species is characterised by its (usually) red or brown body and lack of a keel.
Similar species: Pulmonata
By Barry
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Uploaded Sep 2, 2017. Captured Sep 1, 2017 16:21 in Hüttenberger Weg, 88214 Ravensburg, Germany.
