• Question: do green slugs exist?

    Asked by Maccy J to Elliot, Hazel, Rupesh, Thomas on 23 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Elliot Jokl

      Elliot Jokl answered on 23 Jun 2016:

      After some frantic googling, there is actually a really cool green sea slug which looks like a weird hybrid of a plant and a slug!

      It seems like it steals choloroplasts from the algae that it eats, and uses these to obtain it’s food from the sun via photosynthesis, which is the same process plants use to make sugars from carbon dioxide and water. I’ve put the link to the wikipedia page below which has a picture:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysia_chlorotica

    • Photo: Thomas Biggans

      Thomas Biggans answered on 23 Jun 2016:

      Elliot has found us a sea slug that I think is cool because it can essentially eat sun rays

      In terms of land slugs I’ve found a Spanish Stealth Slug which produces green mucus and are green on their undersides. You can’t follow it if you can’t see the slime trail! Apparently in the UK we renamed it the Durham slug, presumably because its mainly seen sneaking around Durham.

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