A stroll in the sunshine.

Slug mythbusters part II.Today in slug mythbusters we take care of the "myth" that slugs avoid the sun because it'll dry them out to quickly.Not so according to the ones in my garden,the morning is an ideal time of day for a stroll and to soak up the sun.Who knows:are our slugs adapting sooner than we humans do to this changing climate?

As a slug you have many enemies in life:hedgehogs,toads,the sun and humans.Which makes it so nice if some of your fellow inhabitants of the garden make life a little bit easier.Spiders,who doesn't love them?Especially when they make a nice bridge for you so that you don't have undertake numerous stunts to cross a pile of branches.

Sometimes as a snail you get sick of people calling you slow,use your name only as a bad thing.So what to do?Well this Cepaea nemoralis decided to take things in his own hands.And it wasn't an easy task either,because how do you get from the ground level all the way up behind the cardoor?In human terms that would be climbing up 90 mtrs or about 300 feet,carrying another human.
But once you reached your destination,there's the reward:traveling at about 120 km p/h or 75 mph.And that would be the same as you as human would travel at a speed of 10800 km p/h or 6750 mph.Now,here's the question : would you want to climb 90 mtrs to go 10800 km p/h?

I just noticed I haven't written in the whole month of July,too busy doing other things,but from now on I'll better my ways.A good opportunity to start my small serie of SlugMythbusters.
The first one I'll start with is this one:copper will deter slugs and snails from entering your garden.The reason this is so(or not)is that they will receive a small shock when they try to crawl over a copper surface:their blood contains copper and having such moist skin creates a nice small current.
My small experiment was this:get a copper ring,place slug inside it and see what happens:will it:
A.retract when it hits the wall,and try to find another way out
B.don't move at all or
C.just crawl over the copper,thereby busting this myth

As they say,a picture tells more than a thousand words:




Hmm...yes...I call that myth busted?Next time more slug and snail myths.