Close up of a slug eating

[FailasaurusRex]

thats awesome

[navroful]

Boring.

[wildgene24]

AAAHHHH!!! SLUGS ARE GROSS I HATE SLUGS!!!!

[54641231]

All insects are edible you need to cook some of them like slugs & snails some slugs contain harmful diseases so I personally wouldn't take the risk but snails are safe I'd gut them first though.

[CWK922]

One time I ate a slug and I died

[441rider]

Thought you were going to eat it! they taste ok here on the coast but watch for the yellow ones. Great vids,

[seanmulhall]

@441rider Are you serious! I have been searching the internet to try and find out which insects and bugs are edible. I have not found anything on slugs. Do you know of any other UK bugs that are edible.

[441rider]

@seanmulhall

I will try and take my Nikon on next trip and find them. Rule I was taught by west coast natives was no bright coloured ones. Snails test 2 then feast rule. Lots of places along shore to drag in crabs as well and a lic here is $22./yr for 6-8 a day. $50. or less for two deer or so a year.

[441rider]

@seanmulhall

PS

I'd eat that guy in a heartbeat with melted butter and garlic over any worm. I jest about the butter I'd have to have nothing to harm such a cool animal but eating leaves I cannot do for days on end. He is an indicator of sorts to leaves you can eat as well as fungus if in a do or die just give one some beer and watch.

[seanmulhall]

@441rider

I may be wrong but I believe that slugs can eat fungi that is poisonous to us

[Heavyb2u]

@seanmulhall If you decide to eat a slug, make sure you boil it first to ruduce the slime. They go down much like oysters but with less after taste.

[Rofannie62694]

I have never seen a slug that closer up. THat is just awesome. Thanks.

[ValiantArrow]

I also thought it was a wound, but seeing it again on your slug it would be an unlikely coincidence...

The pneumostome is a feature (the respiratory opening) of the external body anatomy of an air-breathing land slug or land snail.

It is an opening in the right side of the mantle of a Pulmonata ordered or subclassed slug (suborder Stylommatophora) or snail. Air enters through the pneumostome into the animal's single lung, the air-filled mantle cavity.

[corruptiblelogistics]

Ha ha! From the title I thought that you were going to instruct us on the nutritional applications these have when strapped for other sources of food!

... I read it as "Close up of Slug Eating". Missed the 'a' in that description.

Er, CAN you eat them? :D

[craftyfox1986]

Watch out BBC! They are fascinating, I always studied creatures up close like this when I was a kid, actually I still do if they're doing something I haven't seen before! I've never seen one eating a mushroom before though so thanks!

[matt4270]

I used to think slugs were really unattractive,.. but after a few drinks,...hmmm.....!

[651bobby]

Urrghh, one of the only animals I don't like are slugs.

[Olehys]

OM NOM NOM - Love the close up, never really seen a slug eat this close up

[KonstantinKuehn]

man thanks for the comic relief! those slugs look really funny as it just chows down on the mushrooms! its also really funny how the slug is totally not bothered by ur filming its feasting

[flamedrag18]

nice.

the hole is for breathing, slugs are the only mollusks that have a breathing system similar to a lung.

it seemed like it was having a hard time with the inner stock on the mushroom, munch munch munch.

[seanmulhall]

Wow, thanks for that information.

[specioss]

yea i just figure tht out yesterday when i found a slug yesterday

[denplaza]

cool video!

[spinkwotzer]

Nice camerawork

[assassin616]

why lol, this is intersting ur right

[debtansey89]

As good as any nature program I've ever seen!! Great job and 5 stars***** !!!

[luvu2luvme]

nice vid sean,they a problem when they eating my lettuce though.didnt realise how big there knashers were. What knid of camera do you use .great focusing and picture quality

[Roboflux]

wow, like another world down there isnt it, great capture sean

[ProKillerNinja]

What kind of slug is that?

[cabbage0dusk]

Not seen a slug eating properly before, atleast no close-up.. It is pretty facinating!

[SkogKniv]

He is just trying to make his way like everyone else hehe. Good one Sean, I rather enjoy these type of videos. 5/5

[CelticReject]

Nature is wonderful. See how gentle it is. Not like us bloody humans.

[wolfbrother2501]

lol gental have you spent a night in the woods

[CelticReject]

I used to live in a wood!

[wolfbrother2501]

lol

[OKBushcraft]

Gentle? That beast just interupted the life cycle of a harmless fungi! Ghastly. There ought to be a law!

[CelticReject]

HAHAHA Ok I was feeling tired, and I came over all philosophical!!!!

[bigajosep]

the slugs eat my garden i kill em

[CelticReject]

I am passing on your details to the slug liberation organisation!

[iscay666]

hahah I got a blue tongued lizard they end up as its food :) yep my lizard is a slug and snail KILLING MACHINE!! :)

[johnboyrebel27]

amazing video sean!! I havent even seen stuff like this on NatGeo!! 5/5