Gotta crawl to the ugly bug ball.

These are two leopard slugs mating. They're using 4 inches long, which, to me, seems pretty big for a slug.

I ran into four of these last night as I keyed into the Bushwick backhouse to pass out. When the flood light came on, I saw this long, fat, striped thing swishing slowly around on a plate. It's a slugs version of gamboling about, probably. I thought it was a snake and shrieked, "holy Shit!" Then I noticed another, dangling froma branch like in the picture, except it was but one and not caught in flagrante.

That's some sort of mucus liquid it excretes that they are hanging from here.

Then I saw another, and another. It was a regular bug crawl.

Leopard slugs are hermaphroditic, so after they mate, both carry and lay eggs in clear, bubble shells. I think I could get Mike to eat one of these, but I'd say it's myabe 60/40 he'd do it with the right prompting.

This morning one was squashed and shriveled on the ground. But the cool things about slugs is that they're one of the few things out there that aren't any more gross dead than alive.