What a fantastic photograph !
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Ouch - you can hear the finger-nails slipping! Now if it had been a slug, I'd have stamped on them.
All best - Gavin
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
Amazing, I'm speechless. -Ina
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.
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.
You really ought to enter it in a photographic competition
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.
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!
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.
Wow Eric what a pic :o something you dont see everyday
Teresa