Eight-inch-long, day-glo pink slugs have been appearing in numbers on a mountain top in New South Wales, Australia.
From Yahoo! news:
"As bright pink as you can imagine, that's how pink they are," Michael Murphy, a ranger with the National Parks and Wildlife Service, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. "On a good morning, you can walk around and see hundreds of them."
I'm not exactly sure what he means by "a good morning."
4 comments:
Dave, are there any of those 3" slugs out there? I don't seen those type here any longer but i did accidentally step on a little one in a shell yesterday evening.
You stepped on a little Ohio snail. I remember them really well.
We've got slugs up to four or five inches out here, and they're an ecological necessity. Being salad eaters, they at least keep a little of the overgrowth under control.
No pink eight-inchers though.
Thanks. I'm thinking that the housing development here probably killed them off.
Threatened swallowtails.
http://news.yahoo.com/last-butterfly-saving-america-beauty-extinction-173836909.html
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