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Wildlife Reports => Toronto Wildlife => Topic started by: David Shilman on November 07, 2006, 04:40:58 PM

Title: Large Slug
Post by: David Shilman on November 07, 2006, 04:40:58 PM: Back on the old board, I described this slug, and Craig came up with a species. I forget the response, and can't find it in the archives. Anyone?

(http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/albums/album08/2ndslug4.sized.jpg)

Thanks,

David
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Post by: Halton Hills on November 08, 2006, 02:47:56 AM: .

Looks like a "Giant Gardenslug"..........Limax maximus

Other names include:

* Great Grey Slug
* Great slug
* Grey slug
* Leopard slug
* Spotted garden slug
* Tiger slug

Look here:

http://www.biolib.cz/en/image/id1490 (http://www.biolib.cz/en/image/id1490)

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Post by: David Shilman on November 08, 2006, 07:47:32 AM: Quote from: "Halton Hills"
Looks like a "Giant Gardenslug"..........Limax maximus...

It surely does. Thanks for that.

David
Title: Gardenslug
Post by: Anonymous on November 18, 2006, 07:37:26 PM: Today on the Leslie Street Spit Ian Cannell and I found a Giant Gardenslug on the road early in the morning way out close to Pipit Point. I picked it up and deposited in the grass. First one I have seen on The Spit.
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Post by: David Shilman on October 03, 2008, 04:21:07 PM: I saw two on my morning dog-walk, one I rescued from the sidewalk and put in a garden, the other was so "stuck" to the sidewalk, I didn't want to pull too hard. These guys are very firm (muscular)...not as soft as one might think. It was VERY difficult to wash the slime off my fingers.
Title: Large Slug
Post by: KP on March 16, 2009, 10:55:40 PM: Hi David. I often see Large Garden Slugs when I am looking for Eastern Red Backed Salamanders. I see them a lot when I overturn logs.
Title: Re: Large Slug
Post by: David Shilman on March 17, 2009, 09:52:54 PM: Quote from: "KP"
Hi David. I often see Large Garden Slugs when I am looking for Eastern Red Backed Salamanders. I see them a lot when I overturn logs.

Where abouts, KP?