Garden Slug (Shell-less Mollusc)

in hive-144064 •  9 months ago 

I found these slugs from different spots at the time I was on the hunting other nature pieces. They were staying still that drove me to seek for good chance to capture them from various angles. As they were under shady spot, I managed to take it away. Although, it is sticky mollusk, it may be also considered as part of the beauty that nature provides that we cant ignore its presence around us. After I passed some attempts, I finally got a few worth sharing pictures. This mollusk is known with sticky and slow and belong to subclass Pulmonata has soft, sticky and slimy bodies. It is generally restricted to moist habitats on land (one freshwater species is known). This slug is large and bulky with long coarse tubercles on the side and back that can be distinguished from mature adults by the presence of lateral stripes and included in the colorless group slug, though very sticky, and it lacks a keel. It is generally seen in any well-vegetated area, including gardens.

Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word slug is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell...source

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CameraNikon D7000
LensTamron Tele-Macro 70-300
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Wow this is so beautiful and so entertaining your photography is so perfect.