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Garden Arion

arion hortensis

The Garden Arion is a large, slimy slug that loves to munch on leaves in gardens. It helps break down plant material and enrich the soil, making it a garden superhero!

Lebensraum: Moist gardens, woodlands, and grassy areas.

Aussehen

The Garden Arion is a sleek slug, typically dark brown or greyish-black, with distinctive bright yellow-orange stripes running along its sides. It has two pairs of retractable tentacles, which it uses to sense its surroundings.

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Garden Arion
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Garden Arion

Kategorie

Invertebrate

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

0/5 · Keine bekannte Gefahr

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

A Garden Arion can squeeze through unbelievably small cracks to hide.

These amazing slugs are hermaphrodites, having both male and female parts!

They have thousands of tiny teeth on a ribbon-like tongue called a radula.

This slug breathes through a tiny hole on its right side called a pneumostome!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Slime Navigator

Garden Arion can leave a sticky slime trail that helps them glide over surfaces and find their way back using chemical cues.

Fähigkeit

Underground Burrower

Garden Arion can dig into loose soil to escape predators, intense heat, or dry conditions, staying hidden and safe.

Fähigkeit

Super Sniffer Tentacles

Garden Arion has sensitive tentacles that help them 'sniff' out tasty food and even sense danger nearby.

Maße und Details

Länge
2.5-4 cm
Gewicht
0.5-2 g
Lebenserwartung
1-2 Jahre

Ernährung und Fütterung

Garden Arions munch on decaying plant matter, fungi, and sometimes fresh garden greens.

Hauptnahrung

  • decaying leaves
  • fungi
  • moss
  • young plant shoots
  • algae

Nahrungssuche

  • Foraging

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

eaten by

Blackbird

Turdus merula

slugs are a food source

eaten by

Hedgehog

Erinaceus europaeus

nocturnal predator

eaten by

Ground Beetle

Carabus nemoralis

juveniles consumed

eats

Lettuce

Lactuca sativa

eats leaves and seedlings

Merkmale

Auch bekannt als

Brown SlugCommon Garden SlugEuropean Garden Slug

Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

0/5 · Keine bekannte Gefahr

Noch keine besonderen Sicherheitshinweise.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das länge von Garden Arion?

2.5-4 cm

Was ist der/die/das gewicht von Garden Arion?

0.5-2 g

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von Garden Arion?

1-2 Jahre

Was frisst Garden Arion?

Garden Arions munch on decaying plant matter, fungi, and sometimes fresh garden greens.

Wo findet man Garden Arion normalerweise?

Moist gardens, woodlands, and grassy areas.

Wie jagt Garden Arion?

Foraging

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