Søren of In the Toads Garden recently posted about the leopard slugs he has in his garden, and interestingly mentioned it’s a ‘good’ slug that fights off ‘bad’ slugs.
This brings back memories for me of the banana slugs from where I used to live in northern California, the official mascot of the University of California Santa Cruz.
Some other bloggers have posted pictures of their slugs in the last few months, but I can’t remember now where I’ve seen them.
Mostly we think of slugs and snails as garden pests, but sometimes it’s nice to think of them as part of our garden’s biodiversity!
Now that was something I hadn’t considered. There you go, all slugs are not the same. It kind of reminds me about the recent publicity over frogs in Australia that look like cane toads. They are under threat due to a strong public feeling about toads. Makes you wonder how many good slug species have been wiped out unthinkingly.