#mollusk — Public Fediverse posts

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐌🥬 Banana #slugs (genus Ariolimax) move only 16.5 cm per minute across their slime, yet serve as important #forest decomposers in California’s #Redwood National Park and #GoldenGate National Recreation Area.

A close-up #video shows one munching greens using its radula, a tongue-like part armed with roughly 25,000 tiny teeth. The #PacificNorthwest #mollusks are also hermaphrodites and #California’s official state slug.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/banana-slug-eating-video/

#bananaslug #mollusk #nature #wildlife #biology #animals #science #zoology

Plebecula giramica is a #species of air-breathing #landSnail, a #terrestrial #pulmonate #gastropod #mollusk in the family #Geomitridae. This species is #endemic to #Madeira, Portugal. Its natural #habitats are temperate #forests and temperate #grassland. It is threatened by #habitatLoss.

I had to terminate this invasive juvenile black slug. It's in an area that's part of an ongoing rewilding community, environmental project. We remove them from areas where we're trying to protect native slugs & native habitat. Taildropper slugs are a native slug species at threat here on Vancouver Island & it's important to do our best to protect their habitats.

Even though these are called black slugs, they have a wide colour range & most found here exhibit this brown colour, when young.
Black slugs can lay up to 150 eggs at a time. They reproduce very quickly, which causes their population to grow beyond manageable in a short time period, if left to breed.
By comparison, native slugs lay only 20-30 eggs & are slower to reproduce.

#InvasiveSpecies #slugs #ArionAter #gastropod #mollusk #wildlife #nature #Saanich #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #Invader

tide pool finds from other planets

#Shells #Mollusk #Sci-fi #Alien #Intricate #TidePool #Barnacle #Decorative #Futuristic
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion

on various things: https://aieris.art/featured/tide-pool-finds-from-other-planets-eris-and-ai.html

Today in BoneQuest History for January 3rd 2020 "ONE VERY DISGRUNTLED CRICKET" https://bonequest.com/7593 #bonequest :pants: #bonequest_hi_fi #cocks #cricket #mollusk #pants_solo #wiener