Fun facts of the week 5/16-5/20
May 16, 2016
- Only 5% of the slug population is above ground at any one time. The other 95% is underground digesting your seedlings, laying eggs, and feeding on roots and seed sprouts.
- Slugs used to live in the ocean, which is why they still need to keep moist.
- A slug is basically a muscular foot, and the name ‘gastropod’ literally means stomach foot.
- Slugs have the capability to reproduce by themselves, although a mate is preferred.
- Like sharks, slugs routinely lose and replace their teeth.
