Nature's Giant Recyclers
Perhaps it is the mucus, perhaps the snake-like appearance or the habit
of many species of slug to regard your garden and the carefully
cultivated plants within as dinner - but the slug generally has a pretty
bad press. A lot of people don’t like slugs. The sight of them in a
garden has been known to turn even the most mild mannered in to mad
mollusk murderers.
Yet the giant
Banana Slug
has more than just its size and resemblance to a certain yellow fruit
as a claim to fame. This is one of the unsung champions of the forest,
for the banana slug only eats dead organic material which they then turn
in to soil.
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