Have any dirty slug pictures? Wanna buy some?
So here is how it went down. I stepped out front to have a smoke after dinner and one of the cats came out with me. Well "Cole" the cat noticed something hanging from the newly painted siding, but I couldn't tell what it was in the dark.
I tried to light it up with my phone LCD screen back-light, but upon shining just a tiny bit of light on the weird object, it began to move and almost looked like it changed shape a bit. This caused me to have two thoughts at almost the same time, literally the makings of a train wreck in my head.
The first thought, "shit, I need a real flashlight to figure out what's going on here" and the second thought "I don't want my arm any closer to this fucking thing until I know what it is." It's funny to think now that I was scared because I thought maybe a small rodent or very large insect decided to post up on the side of the house.
I run inside to get the mag-lite, my roommate Mink and our friend Frank. We go outside with the flashlight, and we are met face to face with two slugs literally creating a flower-like egg sac (spooge pile).
Check these pictures out of slugs bumping uglies (you can click on each image to see the full size version, be warned though... the images are each 2048 x 1536 and are over 1MB each):
This is how they looked at first, notice the egg sac hanging from the intertwined slugs (I'm guessing this is similar to a money shot for humans):
Our screwing duo from a different angle and a bit further away:
Here we show the long "snot rocket" holding the slugs to the siding of the house:
...and obviously here we show that slugs aren't that much different than humans (notice the male trying to leave the scene after the business is done, that's right trick, no cuddling):
The same scene from above:
So, what we didn't show here is that right after this, the acting male (you will find out why I said that in a second) attempts to leave the scene and the acting female climbs back up the "snot rocket" ladder to go find somewhere to deposit the egg sac.
Apparently the egg sac will contain around 30 eggs which may or may not graduate into actual living offspring. I read up on them via Wikipedia, I love Wikipedia and I don't really give a fuck if the information is completely accurate or not.
From the "Slug" Wikipedia article:
"Slugs are hermaphrodites, having both female and male reproductive organs. Once a slug has located a mate they encircle each other and sperm is exchanged through their protruding genitalia. A few days later around 30 eggs are laid into a hole in the ground or under the cover of objects such as fallen logs."
So I guess what's really weird that you can't quite see in the pictures is that the egg sac actually looked like a flower for a bit and then kind of like a mushroom with the wavy cap edges. I seriously wish that my "seed" looked like a flower exploding when it came out.... that would be a selling point in itself!!
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Labels: adventures in everett, animals, use and abuse
posted by link at Thursday, August 09, 2007
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