Slug identification weekend - only £50

[frogwoman]

Looks great but it's miles away from me and I have to work

iona you can email them and they'll put your name on a waiting list.

 

[petee]

Yes it is a surprising response from 'barleymow

kink-shamng, innit.
he's jealous of their polymamorous lifestyle.

 

[iona]

I did have to google "can humans get lungworm" recently when it occurred to me that I should probably wash my hands/gloves in between touching slugs and licking overripe fruit off my fingers

(Apparently they can but we don't get that species of lungworm in the UK)

 

[ouirdeaux]

How do you know they taste disgusting..?

They have to. Just look at them.

Actually, I was wondering about that as I wrote it. Well, we eat snails, or at least some people do, but not slugs. I ate snails once. I was in Brussels, and persuaded my travel companion to try them, as he would eat anything, so I could cadge a few. Or to be honest, exactly two, enabling me to say that I have tried snails. They were rubbery and didn't have much of a taste, and what taste they did have was not exactly nice. They reminded me a bit of whelks, and whenever I've eaten those, I debate whether I actually like them and decide the answer is no. The garlic butter made the snails just about edible.

Fun slug fact of the day: the German word for slug is Nacktschnecke, or 'naked snail'.

Edited, because I am a tired idiot who originally wrote 'snail' for 'slug' originally in the last sentence, turning it into nonsense, but you were all too polite to point it out.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I did have to google "can humans get lungworm" recently when it occurred to me that I should probably wash my hands/gloves in between touching slugs and licking overripe fruit off my fingers

(Apparently they can but we don't get that species of lungworm in the UK)

Think we've had this discussion over the years when Fez909 was planning to harvest them for food.

 

[iona]

iona you can email them and they'll put your name on a waiting list.

I might do Need to check if I'm free that weekend and travel etc.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Here's some filthy slug pornography for you deviants

Spoiler: NSFW

 

[moochedit]

Think we've had this discussion over the years when Fez909 was planning to harvest them for food.

Probably not a good idea....

He swallowed a slug for a dare. Now he's dead

Sam Ballard, 28, swallowed a garden slug after being dared to by his mates.

www.nzherald.co.nz

 

[Callie]

Think we've had this discussion over the years when Fez909 was planning to harvest them for food.

It wasn't a dream!!!

 

[petee]

Here's some filthy slug pornography for you deviants

Spoiler: NSFW

all love is beautiful, you reactionary.

 

[moochedit]

all love is beautiful, you reactionary.

Yes just ask prince william

 

[petee]

Yes just ask prince william

the slugs were consensual, obv.

 

[frogwoman]

Always a good idea to wash your hands when handling slugs tbh, but I'm not too worried about lungworm AFAIK that's only if you eat them.

 

[Orang Utan]

It’s always best just to avoid handling slugs altogether

 

[ouirdeaux]

the slugs were consensual, obv.

But how old were they?

 

[frogwoman]

A slug sort of exploded when I took it off a plant a few months ago. It was a bit of a shock

 

[frogwoman]

Really hoping that they're not going to hate me

 

[ouirdeaux]

I think I've gone off the idea of dinner. Possibly forever.

 

[petee]

But how old were they?

our standards don't apply.

 

[frogwoman]

I was trying to pull it off a thyme plant and then it showered me with slime and went very rigid and stopped moving. I thought it was just its defence mechanism but it stopped moving and I think it may have died. It was really weird and disturbing

 

[Callie]

Always a good idea to wash your hands when handling slugs tbh, but I'm not too worried about lungworm AFAIK that's only if you eat them.

I trod on one once and the slime would not come off it was welded on and resistant to soap and water

 

[BristolEcho]

I hope you can report back here what you have learnt!

 

[moochedit]

A slug sort of exploded when I took it off a plant a few months ago. It was a bit of a shock

Did you have salt on your hands?

 

[frogwoman]

I trod on one once and the slime would not come off it was welded on and resistant to soap and water

Yeah I wrap them in leaves if I need to pick them up and throw them over the fence lol

 

[frogwoman]

Did you have salt on your hands?

No!

 

[Steel Icarus]

Slugs are rank, I used to live in a house with three cats and would often find a couple laid like the Queen of Sheba in the catfood

 

[JimW]

These sort of organisations are absolute gems, aren't they? The Field Studies Council, even the name sounds like some precursor to a better way of living where knowledge is shared freely and we frolic through sunlit uplands trying not to step on anything squishy.

 

[frogwoman]

These sort of organisations are absolute gems, aren't they? The Field Studies Council, even the name sounds like some precursor to a better way of living where knowledge is shared freely and we frolic through sunlit uplands trying not to step on anything squishy.

Doing their online courses kept me somewhat sane during covid.

 

[bellaozzydog]

I used to identify slugs and snails by their flight patterns

My neighbour use to throw all hers over the fence into mine

 

[Callie]

I haven't seen any massive ones with orange bits for ages but I guess I haven't been looking much!