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Molluscs - Snails & Slugs Page 2
Image Taken on 13 Dec 2013
at 19:58 Image of day on 31 Jan 2014
We don't often catch slugs rearing up like this.
We think fieldmice (wood mice) like to lick the sweet slime - don't worry -
it wont bite it!
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Image Taken on 11 Oct 2020
at 23:38 Image of day on 24 Nov 2020
At the same site we see here a 'normal' Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) accompanied by a 'Yellow
Slug'.
Only our second sighting ever of a Yellow slug, the first one a few weeks ago.
Ref: 20201124_e63_20201011_2338_314_fb1 fieldmouse (wood mouse) + yellow slug + hawthorn berry(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 28 Jul 2008
at 00:05 Image of day on 13 Aug 2008
Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) and Snail at the Camera 1 fruit stall.
Their visit were actually 9 minutes apart but we could not resist bringing them together.
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Image Taken on 14 May 2006
at 01:24 Image of day on 22 May 2006
Perhaps the fastest and the slowest. It certainly
wasn't the snails that leapt up to break the beam.
Ref: 20060522_d35_20060514_0124_048 fb2 fieldmouse (wood mouse) and 2 snails(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 28 Apr 2012
at 00:54 Image of day on 31 May 2012
We think this fieldmouse (wood mouse) is licking the slug for its tasty mucus.
Ugh!
Ref: 20120531_d5c_20120428_0054_160_fb2 fieldmouse (wood mouse) and leopard slug on log (crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 09 Dec 2013
at 18:21 Image of day on 24 Jan 2014
Make up your own caption ...
We think fieldmice (wood mice) enjoy licking the (said to be sweet) mucus
from slugs.
Ref: 20140124_d50_20131209_1821_056_fb1 fieldmouse (wood mouse) and slug(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 06 Aug 2006
at 03:25 Image of day on 19 Aug 2006
A fieldmouse (wood mouse) and slug make a pair of unlikely overnight
snack companions (3:25 a.m. BST)
Ref: 20060819_d3e_20060806_0325_136 fb1 fieldmouse (wood mouse) and slug(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 17 Jun 2007
at 22:05 Image of day on 07 Jul 2007
The impression is of a who-gives-way confrontation.
Probably a moment later the mouse walked over the slug.
Ref: 20070707_d36_20070617_2205_067 fb1 fieldmouse (wood mouse) and slug head-to-head(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 14 Jun 2007
at 00:06 Image of day on 29 Jun 2007
Wet night brings out the slugs and mice.
Ref: 20070629_d36_20070614_0006_050 fb1 fieldmouse (wood mouse) and slug with corn grains(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 20 Sep 2007
at 22:34 Image of day on 24 Oct 2007
Almost the hare and the tortoise.
Many later images (snails don't rush!) show the snail survived the
encounter unscathed.
Ref: 20071024_d36_20070920_2234_181 fb1 fieldmouse (wood mouse) and snail(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 07 Sep 2008
at 01:41 Image of day on 23 Sep 2008
Reminds us of the Olympic Steeplechase - with water splash and
slug for a barrier.
Ref: 20080923_d3b_20080907_0141_109 fb1 fieldmouse (wood mouse) clambering over slug at flooded log(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 12 Sep 2013
at 00:49 Image of day on 15 Nov 2013
Corn grain in paws, this fieldmouse (wood mouse) nibbles elegantly around midnight.
Meanwhile 3 slugs radulate their way along in the wet after rain.
Ref: 20131115_d36_20130912_0049_076_fb4 fieldmouse (wood mouse) eating corn grain in paws surrounded by other foods & 3 slugs after rain(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 23 Aug 2011
at 21:30 Image of day on 13 Oct 2011
Fieldmice (Wood Mice) have been all over the place last & this week and a bit
of rain (about 12mm = half inch) has brought out the slugs and snails
as well.
Ref: 20111013_d35_20110823_2130_056_fb4 fieldmouse (wood mouse) eating food in paws over leopard slug (crop @576)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 02 Jan 2014
at 19:16 Image of day on 20 Feb 2014
Looks rather tasty even to us (the fruit, not the slug)!
Ref: 20140220_d50_20140102_1916_060_fb1 fieldmouse (wood mouse) eating fruit pulp from paws with slug at rear(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 06 Jan 2014
at 18:12 Image of day on 20 Feb 2014
Shall I lick you now, or later?
Ref: 20140220_d50_20140106_1812_050_fb1 fieldmouse (wood mouse) examining small slug(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 10 Sep 2018
at 01:40 Image of day on 03 Nov 2018
A Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) holding a corn grain in it's paws, along with the Leopard slug
below it. The Leopard slug to the right is from 3 days earlier (also with a
less interesting mouse in the same place as this one so not shown)
and was bigger and differently marked to the later individual.
Ref: 20181103_e63_20180910_0140_406+20180907_2243_194_fb1 fieldmouse (wood mouse) holding corn in paws + leopard slug + another leopard slug (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 15 Sep 2013
at 20:56 Image of day on 18 Nov 2013
Another Leopard slug gets licked for it's sweet slime?
Ref: 20131118_d50_20130915_2056_241_fb1 fieldmouse (wood mouse) inspecting leopard slug(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 10 Jun 2012
at 00:37 Image of day on 21 Jul 2012
Yummy
Leopard Slug mucus for the Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) to lick!
Ref: 20120721_d5c_20120610_0037_172_fb2 fieldmouse (wood mouse) inspecting leopard slug(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 11 Aug 2010
at 21:41 Image of day on 21 Sep 2010
"What are you?"
A young mouse possibly having its first encounter with a leopard slug.
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Image Taken on 29 Jul 2009
at 21:48 Image of day on 07 Sep 2009
Oh dear - more mice nuzzling snails - this time a very young mouse
we have often seen photographed on this log in the surrounding few days.
Ref: 20090907_d3a_20090729_2148_082_fb2 fieldmouse (wood mouse) inspects snail in the rain(r+mb id@576).jpg
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