A slug and a surprise
Over the weekend, I decided to see what I could find outside. It was a bit cold, so nothing was obvious in the open so I turned to the standard process of turning over different logs and rocks to see what I could find.
On turning over a piece of wood, I was delighted to find a leopard slug. These slugs are native to Europe, but have become common in gardens on the West Coast of the United States. According to Wikipedia, they mostly eat rotting plant matter and fungi but another site mentions that they eat other slugs so I’m not sure.
The slug was actually too big to fit in the view finder with my MP-E 65 so I settled with taking some pictures of the texture of the slug – which I found rather interesting.
However, there was more than meets the eye with this slug, as I was about to find out when I turned it over.