A candy striped area slug (Lehmannia nyctelia) coming down a mucous thread
John Gould & & Jose W Valdez
Slugs are usually material to slackly munch yard environment-friendlies, however one of these sluggish molluscs has actually lately been identified taking to the air, coming down vertically down a string of slime like a crawler hanging from a line of silk.
The exploration stands for a brand-new kind of mobility never ever seen prior to in slugs.
John Gould, an environmentalist at the University of Newcastle in Australia, was carrying out fieldwork on frogs on Kooragang Island, New South Wales, when he located a candy striped area slug (Lehmannia nyctelia) …