My wife discovered this bad boy out on the terrace this morning. “Honey, come outside and tell me if this is a rubber slug, because it sure didn’t feel like rubber when I grabbed it,” she said.
We have been playing with rubber slugs lately.
Her theory is that this guy is a result of my experimentation with beer and slugs earlier this summer. So I may have to update my findings. Or at least include beer-induced gigantism among garden slugs among the potential effects examined in next year’s expanded study.
It’s really quite a beautiful specimen. Nearly a foot long – I say nearly a foot long, I can say that, as we are dealing with imprecise science here. Nearly a foot long, and fast. It tried to attack my camera when I was taking pictures of it this morning. I am guessing it got into the Heinekken and Red Bull.
Beautiful pattern. I am from the Pacific Northwest, and I have never seen a slug larger or more beautiful than this one. Here is a full-body shot:
Oh, my Flying Spaghetti Monster. Jesus Christ. Hera and Zeus on Olympus. That is a huge, huge slug. I feel repulsed, and intrigued, at the same time.
Horror Slug is coming for you.
The Giant Squid Overlords are not going to like this one little bit.
Being a Pacific Northwest native and resident myself, I must concur… that is certainly a more fabulous specimen than any of our common, dog-poop-brown slugs that we have in these parts.
I for one welcome our new masters
wow.
florida slugs are so…pedestrian. i love it’s outfit! kind of a snow leopard look?
and that hat. very modern.
cousin i’d-like-to-wear-glitter-pumps-to-my-soccer-practice would call that a banana slug. he also has a lot to say about their medical healing abilities…
Holey moley.