I don=A8t know if the killer slug has reached England and Ireland, but I =
was advised by a friend last week that it was now all over Denmark and wa=
s red-brown in colour. Sure enough, two days ago I found one.
It is called the Iberian slug (Arion ater) and eats all the vegetation in=
one's garden. We have been reading about it for years, as it crept up Ge=
rmany and over the border. So now I look around!
Carol, DK
EEEEEEEwwwwwwwwwwwwuuuu ........hope it's cooked well.... some slugs carry
flukes.... of course maybe these are farm raised slugs???????? stilll,,
,Ewwwwwwwwuuuuuuuuuuuuu
http://www.whh.org/parasites/parasite2.htm
Sorry, Arion ater IS the black slug (which meat eaters say taste good, and
even the killer slug is being served in restaurants now).
Carol wrote:
Are you sure that it is Arion ater? As far as I know this is a big
slug, very common: black (from which it takes its species name:
"ater", meaning dead-black), brownish or grey. (Maybe the big
khaki-camouflage-coloured ones are this species also?) We have this
big Arion ater fellow ALL over, and while it does eat LOTS of plants,
it also hangs out in the compost bin, eating decaying vegetation. I
don't think it is as damaging as snails, or as the small grey garden
slug (Arion hortensis). The advantage, of course, of this mammoth
mollusc, is that it is easy to see, and thus easily dispatched to
slug heaven. Perhaps it has newly arrived in Denmark, with its colder
climate, as a guest of global warming?
Jane Powers
Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland (partly cloudy, about 55 degrees -
where summer never came this year)
Well, hopefully they're cleaned out a bit on some cornmeal or other
grain( fed in captivity on clean feed) after having harvested in the wild,,,
still- eeeeeewwwwwuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
No, Bill, not farm raised, but caught in the "wild". Haven't you ever heard
of the French eating escargots?
Ten fold that EEEEEEEwwwwwwwwwwwwuuuu
I readsome time ago that someone lwas rasing snails on basil for an extra
taste. Still EEEEEEEwwwwwwwwwwwwuuuu
> EEEEEEEwwwwwwwwwwwwuuuu ........hope it's cooked well.... some slugs
carry
Sorry, Arion ater IS the black slug (which meat eaters say taste good, and even the killer slug is being served in restaurants now). I looked up the black one and forgot that it wasn't the killer slug.
Jane, we have had lots of hot summer, but believe me it sure is cold now, with southwest gale winds, rain all day, right now at 19:41 it is 13C.
Carol
No, Bill, not farm raised, but caught in the "wild". Haven't you ever heard of the French eating escargots? Most of these are probably slugs. Snails and slugs are about the same after all, and slugs are not awful nasty things anymore than snails are (in Denmark at least, the black slug is very popular in the sense that people exclaim when coming across them and are careful not to step on them).
Carol
That's what i heard they do to snails b4 they're consumed,,, kinda the same
premise as sending beef to the feedlot to eat corn b4 slaughter- fatten
them up, i guess
Just for the record, why would slugs need to be cleaned out, if they eat
fresh or decayed vegetation?
Carol
Just for the record, why would slugs need to be cleaned out, if they eat fresh or decayed vegetation?
Carol
Could be. As a vegetarian I have no contact with these things!!! I do know that cows and hens are treated just as bad (pigs too of course!) as in the US.
Carol
