no photographs with this post (yet) but for this little off-beat post I am just commenting on doing the 'Slug Patrol' - i.e. this is the time of year that slugs - "common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc" - a common night crawler, are becoming prolific and one can scarcely walk onto the porch at night without squashing one or more. So with a square of paste-board and an ash shovel from the winter I did a quick patrol of the porch support walls and collected perhaps 30 odd slugs or so ranging in size from less than an inch long to one great seven inch long by a girth of perhaps close to three inches - imagine stepping on that in the dark in one's bare feet, uggg - which I then trans-located several hundreds of feet deep into the wood - we should be porch free of slugs for a while.
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