Leopard Slug Sex. You saw it here first, folks. (Nah, you might have seen it on BoingBoing). But isn't this just the kind of hard-hitting natural history drama you'd expect from your weird ol' Uncle Phred? I love it that this guy took the time to capture this Kama Sutra of slug sex for our edification. And you think about this mucoid love scene next time you're tempted to put salt on one of these beauties.
Now I want a confession: how many of you have salted slugs? It'll be good for you to get it off your chest. And some of you have pulled all the legs (except for one) off a Grand-Daddy Long-legs and one of you for sure has put a cherry bomb under a box turtle. You'll sleep better tonight if you'll clear your conscience of these old crimes against nature. We're all ears....
Posted by fred1st at January 14, 2004 05:12 AM | TrackBackReading Tom Sawyer with my eighth graders, I am having fun getting them to reveal such tomboy secrets. In fact, one of them speculated that maybe the tom in tomboy came from the kid who pulled the wings off a fly in church and worried a tick in school. The worst for this sort of activity is a girl, now emerging into full adolescent flirtatiousness. Me? I have kicked ant hills. But slugs and snakes and spiders have always been my friends.
Posted by: travelertrish at January 14, 2004 06:03 AM
We battled slugs in the garden all summer. We salted them, layed out beer traps and a couple of other natural remedies before we had to cave in and bring in the chemical weapons of mass destruction.
I've never harmed a turtle though. Honest.
Posted by: Chris at January 14, 2004 09:13 AM
My mother made me stomp cockroaches in an attempt to rid me of my fear of them. Didn't work. The crunch, then the squish, eww.
Posted by: Ana at January 14, 2004 12:35 PM
Nawww... I never salt slugs, I just feed 'em a sip or two of beer.
Posted by: Marie at January 14, 2004 01:26 PM
OK, maybe I've salted slugs, but I've never backhanded a bird. So there.
Posted by: Trey at January 14, 2004 02:42 PM
I was waiting for someone to bring up the bird incident (thanks trey!)
no salty slugs, but used to like to squish rollie-pollies when I was a kid. Waited for them to curl up in a ball, then *thwap*
from round to flat, just like that [[grin]]
Posted by: ntexas99 at January 14, 2004 11:33 PM
Remember Jade East, one of the pioneers of men's fragrances? Does a number on slugs! Must have been the alcohol. That was the distorted pastime of a college buddy! Yum!
Posted by: Larry at January 15, 2004 06:32 AM
After all these years of shame, I admit it. I sponsered a softball team called the salted slugs.
Bob
Posted by: Robert G. Busch at March 6, 2004 01:28 PM