The red slug is the most common of all the slugs.
They come in many colors: red, orange, and brown
are all possible.
The black sludge is closely related.
These slugs can become quit big.
They eat everything preferable youre vegetables.
The biggest danger for the Red slug is loosing water.
Both by evaporation, and by moving: they produces a
trail of water/slime.
For this reason the Red sludge is only activ at night
or early in the morning. At daytime they hides in
a hole.
enemies of the Red slug
the biggest enemies are birds, but the
tigersnail, another slug will eats the red
sludge also.
red slug in the terrarium
These slug giants are friendly inhabitants in youre
terrarium feeding on vegetable, they love lettuce.
If you give them lettuce they wont eat youre plants.
snails and sluges in the wood, a illustration from Brehm:
Slugs prefer young plants, and eat a lot of them
every night. They make a sceletion of a leave: the
veins are not eaten. They makes holes in leaves, only
eaten the soft parts. >
The battle against the red slug.
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