Yellow slug
The yellow slug is a big slug with yellow skin covered in darker blotches. Its feelers are blue-grey. It likes damp places near people, like cellars, kitchens and gardens, and only comes out at night.
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Fun facts
It has two pairs of feelers. The top pair senses light and the bottom pair is for smelling.
If it loses a feeler, it can grow a new one.
The baby slugs are much darker than the grown-ups.
Its slime can be yellow or see-through.
Because it only comes out at night, many people never notice that it lives near them.
Most asked questions about Yellow slug
?Where does the yellow slug live?
In damp places near people, like cellars, kitchens, drains and gardens.
?Is the yellow slug harmful?
No. It is harmless to people.
?How big is the yellow slug?
It is a big slug and can grow up to about 13 cm long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Limacus flavus
- Group
- Snails, slugs and worms
- Family
- Limacidae
- Classification
- Gastropoda > Stylommatophora > Limacidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Cellar slug, Tawny garden slug
Where the facts come from
- Limacus flavus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Pato Malruk Knight. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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