Photography Kevin Fleming on 20 Apr 2008 10:49 am
land slug
This morning I met a slug.
I have to admit the encounter wasn’t quite like photographing a flock of snow geese exploding into the sky or catching a fox at just at sunrise. But here was a subject I could keep up with! Slugs are gastropod mollusks and hermaphrodites meaning they have both female and male reproductive organs. Their upper feelers are light sensors and their lower pair provide the sense of smell. Slugs have an important role in Delaware ecology as they eat dead leaves and fungus. This guy was on a magnolia leaf of last year’s vintage.
