Palustris pic of a Suicidal Snail

Started by Admin aka Dan, November 02, 2003, 21:14:47

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Admin aka Dan

November 02, 2003, 21:14:47 Last Edit: January 01, 1970, 01:00:00 by 1077926400
What a fantastic photograph !

Admin aka Dan

November 02, 2003, 21:14:47 Last Edit: January 01, 1970, 01:00:00 by 1077926400

gavin

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November 02, 2003, 21:31:55 Last Edit: January 01, 1970, 01:00:00 by 1077926400
Ouch - you can hear the finger-nails slipping!  Now if it had been a slug, I'd have stamped on them.


All best - Gavin

Doris_Pinks

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November 02, 2003, 23:01:34 Last Edit: January 01, 1970, 01:00:00 by 1077926400
Hate to say it Gavin, I stomp on snails as well as slugs!!!  :o I bet I come back as one in my next life  ;D Brilliant photo!
DP
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ina

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November 03, 2003, 00:18:46 Last Edit: January 01, 1970, 01:00:00 by 1077926400
Amazing, I'm speechless. -Ina

Palustris

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November 03, 2003, 00:30:27 Last Edit: January 01, 1970, 01:00:00 by 1077926400
It was not staged, the snail was actually hanging from a spiders web over the top of the frame. When the photo turned out (hurrah for digital cameras) the crittur was taken and disposed of. The ducks loved it. I suppose it should be entitle Molluscicide.
Gardening is the great leveller.

Colin_Bellamy-Wood

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November 03, 2003, 01:52:35 Last Edit: January 01, 1970, 01:00:00 by 1077926400
Eric, are you sure it was a spider's web?   I've watched a slug drop from the top of a hanging basket bracket by spinning it's own thread of slime.   I've only seen it done once.   Your pic must be one in a lifetime, well done.

budgiebreeder

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November 03, 2003, 14:45:00 Last Edit: January 01, 1970, 01:00:00 by 1077926400
You really ought to enter it in a photographic competition
Earth fills her lap with treasures of her own.

Beer_Belly

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November 03, 2003, 15:34:05 Last Edit: January 01, 1970, 01:00:00 by 1077926400
I think I may have a rival in the "good photography class" :-)

Superb photo Paulistrus - and not one that I think many would have the chance of taking.

gavin

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November 03, 2003, 20:07:33 Last Edit: January 01, 1970, 01:00:00 by 1077926400
Suicidal?  Or what?

From a description of the Great Grey Slug - I'm reading a book and have just come across this sentence.

"When pairing, both partners hang twisted round a rope of slime attached to a twig."

I daren't give you the next sentence on the page, but it'd give the automatic translator something to think about!!!!!

All best, Gavin (ROFL)

And a PS - it is a brilliant photograph; well done!

Palustris

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November 03, 2003, 20:33:05 Last Edit: January 01, 1970, 01:00:00 by 1077926400
I am blushing furiously. I have seen snails dangling from their own slime before, but on this occasion there was only the one snail and just off picture the rest of the web.
Gardening is the great leveller.

teresa

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November 04, 2003, 13:28:14 Last Edit: January 01, 1970, 01:00:00 by 1077926400
Wow Eric what a pic :o something you dont see everyday
Teresa
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