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[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago

They are much more complex, than people know. The one at the bottom is even carrying money with it

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

To be honest that is pretty distinctive behaviour.

[–] UnrepententProcrastinator 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah but I'm sure they'd rather be known for something else.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

And they say romance is dead

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Now the important question, does it grow back bigger?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

What doesn't kill you, increases your chances of reproduction.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Those little fuckers will destroy yr garden if you let them.

You can leave beer out in a cooking pot and they'll climb the walls then drown in it - but I don't drink and don't want to buy beer

Sooooo you can capture 4 or 5 of them, cut them in half and impale them on skewers and line your garden Vlad-like and that will, I shit you not, scare the rest from coming in.

Unfortunately, slug eggs are super fucking tiny and are just left random-where in the soil, so there's nothing short of nuking the ground that we can do to get rid of them...so the staking continues.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

when you already nutted but she keep sucking

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

and suddenly, while still sucking, she got hungry

Narrator

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Should that also have been mentioned in the ‘Diet’ section as well?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Maybe they don’t swallow?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don't know about that bit buuuut terrible to step on, in the middle of the night. in the grass, with bare feet.

....no bueno

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Been there...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I remember salting those things with my grandpa in his garden when I was a kid.

I also remember UCSC students cooking and eating them after the school adopted the banana slug mascot.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

adopted the banana slug mascot

Did they run out of, like, normal mascots?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Santa Cruz being Santa Cruz.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Santa Cruz is weird, but I don't know that it's evergreen college weird.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

It seems they've changed its appearance

to thissmiling grey mascot looking like a grey tako hotdog

from thismascot has deep green skin, large eyes with huge pupils, flat wide mouth, and looks creepy while holding a real geoduck that looks as a trunk growing from a clam at best

The old one looked much more impressive

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Eating slugs sounds like a good way to get horrific parasites… I wouldn’t even trust one that’s been burnt to charcoal.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Fell-ouch-io?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I thought that was pretty frequent in slugs, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Another interesting fact about these, their mucus has a mild anesthetic affect and will numb your tongue if you lick it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

As someone who is from Or*n, rofl. My parents even have a story about their dog from when I was a baby freaking out about a banana slug while we were camping.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

True feminists ✊