Garden slug
The garden slug is a small grey to bluish black slug with a dark stripe along each side. Turn it over and you would see a bright orange or yellow foot. Even its slime is yellowish orange.
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Fun facts
It is usually 3 to 4 centimetres long, and very rarely up to 5 centimetres.
Its feelers can be bluish or reddish.
Baby slugs are bluish grey with a darker back and a yellow foot.
When it pulls itself in tight, its body looks like a half circle from the front.
Most asked questions about Garden slug
?How big is the garden slug?
It is usually about 3 to 4 centimetres long.
?What does the garden slug eat?
It eats plants in gardens and fields.
?Is the garden slug dangerous?
No, it is harmless. Just wash your hands after touching it.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Arion hortensis
- Group
- Snails, slugs and worms
- Family
- Arionidae
- Classification
- Gastropoda > Stylommatophora > Arionidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Small striped slug, Black field slug
Where the facts come from
- Arion hortensis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Aiwok. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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