Found this big boy on my back porch. The banana slug is native to the Pacific Northwest region of the USA, it is one of the largest slugs in the world growing up to ten inches long… my slug isn’t that big though
Banana slug has two anuses
Why did you not use a banana for scale
I adore those critters. Lived for a while in the Bay Area and had friends in the hills above Santa Cruz, so knew full well about them.
Fast forward some 25 years and my dad decides after the end of the third divorce to leave New England move to the California mid-coast… and he tells me about these humongous yellow and black slugs… I told him they feel really cool and to pick one up.
He calls me a week later to grumble that he did… but oh, by the way, did I forget to mention that their slime was like a natural form of contact cement that took days for him to get off his hands?
Why no dad… I did not forget.
I love you too.
Oop! I’ve never touched one on purpose and I’ve definitely never picked one up! I enjoy seeing them around though, I’m more of a slug admirer than a slug enjoyer
Oh man you have gotta try licking one. True PNW right of passage - the slime is a shockingly effective anesthetic.
I don’t think that’s safe lol didn’t a kid die from eating a slug? Not sure if it applies to this species but I wouldn’t chance it.
eating =/= licking - but fwiw you’ve eaten plenty of slug slime in your life. While there are slug-borne parasites, the ones which are a threat to humans cannot live in the mucous itself (at least with banana slugs…)
lol don’t worry I’m an idiot but I’m not gross enough to lick a slug
Yeah, generally the worry is about rat lungworm.
Looooong looooooong maaaAAAnnn
Little slug bro claims he is 9.5" online… now you’ve ruined him with the hard facts.
Do you think he counts his eye stalks towards his total length?
He measures from his butthole to his eye stalks, little cheater
He knows all the angles to shoot from… hell if his snail trail is viscous enough he plays the light just right to make it look like a part of him. He is a god amongst catfishers.
Impressive length for being soft
Can you please mark this nsfw? Your slug is VISIBLY horny.
lol I’m so sorry! I didn’t realize! I’m not an expert on slug arousal!
Instructions unclear: used banana slug for scale.
Went camping at Olympic once. I was not ready for banana slugs.
Fucking slugsYour banana slug is ripe and almost ready to make banana slug bread!
banana slug for scale
Yooooo nice nanner
Why. Sees pretty typical from my experience.
