They’re slimy! They’re sloooow! And they have a very interesting sex life! For today’s #EverythingButTheBirdFriday, we bring you the one and only Banana Slug, your friendly Pacific Northwest gastropod. Traveling at a whopping 6.5 inches per minute, banana slugs are one of the slowest creatures on earth. The amazing slime they rely on to keep them moist has multiple purposes, from locomotion to nutrition to keeping predators at bay (it numbs their tongues!). Banana slugs are hermaphrodites, so te

Banana Slugs (Ariolimax sp.) are impressively large terrestrial slugs known for their yellow coloring, but they can exist in a spectrum of shades from bright banana yellow, to greenish, to brown, to spotted, to almost black. Color can be an indication of subspecies, habitat, age, diet, light exposure, temperature, and moisture..Banana slugs are equipped with 4 sensory stalks, 2 eye stalks, and 2 chemical receptor “taste” stalks. They eat using a set of iron imbued scrapers known as a radula. The