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Slug Guts with Parasitic Roundworm *Update, this is probably slug guts with the scenario being that an animal got interrupted while trying to eat it. AND, the cool part is that it looks to have been infected with a roundworm! Eww.<br />
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I&#039;m sure if the slug is eating the guts, or if the guts belong to the slug. I think the slug is probably eating the guts because slugs are generalists, and it doesn&#039;t look like all those guts could have fit inside that slug. But, who knows. It sure was gross though, and I was too squeamish to poke at it to determine what was what.<br />
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Habitat: pondside in a deciduous forest Geotagged,Summer,United States,slug Click/tap to enlarge

Slug Guts with Parasitic Roundworm

*Update, this is probably slug guts with the scenario being that an animal got interrupted while trying to eat it. AND, the cool part is that it looks to have been infected with a roundworm! Eww.

I'm sure if the slug is eating the guts, or if the guts belong to the slug. I think the slug is probably eating the guts because slugs are generalists, and it doesn't look like all those guts could have fit inside that slug. But, who knows. It sure was gross though, and I was too squeamish to poke at it to determine what was what.

Habitat: pondside in a deciduous forest

    comments (2)

  1. Blarghhh! Cool but nasty! Posted 5 years ago
    1. Yep. Posted 5 years ago

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Uploaded Dec 18, 2019. Captured Aug 8, 2019 10:47 in 91 Main St, Sharon, CT 06069, USA.
  • Canon EOS 80D
  • f/6.3
  • 1/64s
  • ISO400
  • 100mm