Slug Supper!

My son captured this frog catching it's slimey supper! Think it must've had a bit of a bitter aftertaste judging by the frog's expression!!! :D

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FFZPDKKT3FQ

 

Blargh!!! :p

Frogtastic!

 

Ugh!!! I think the frog couldn't make it's mind up whether to swallow it or spit it back out.

 

:D that is so funny

 

If you have picked up a slug you will notice the slime is sticky and difficult to get off your fingers, the frog obviously had some trouble swallowing it.

 

Nice to see the frog in action.

I've always tried to encourage frogs to live around the garden because they are supposed to eat slugs. Now I know it's really true. We don't have much of a slug problem, so it looks like encouraging the fogs is worth while

 

I'll take your word for it, Strongy.

 

Kedi, you mean to say you have never picked a slug up with your fingers, you haven't lived.:D
I wonder if they taste much different to snails!!:confused:

 

Taste the same Strongy strip the slime off them first.

 

How do you know that, Walnut???

 

Oh, I forgot to say that I can do without that kind of living, Strongy! I'll leave it for you to enjoy.

 

Uurgh I've often wondered why snails are eaten by some brave souls but never slugs... That frog looks as if he waiting for another slug to be supplied at the end of the film.
has anyone found a good way of removing the slime after gardening?
Some while ago on GC there was a post about slug trousers- slugs' skin not trousers for slugs

 

well i remember when i was doing my intro to land and environment course we had to clean the giant African land snails in the animal unit and the slim that came off them was yuk when we had cleaned them with the water you could tip the washing up bowl upside down and the water just stuck to the bowl because of all the slime, we had to scrap it out with a spatula

 

That is gross, Kalmia! I am sure that I would never have managed that job.

Liz, I remember reading that too, some bits were so funny that I couldn't stop laughing trying to picture it!. Someone posted a link from some other forum or a magazine, I think.

 

You'd think the slime whould help it to slide down! lol

I used to have a giant african land snail, but it was never half as slimey as some of my garden slugs - yeeeuk!