Yellow Slug

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iYellow Slug

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Pulmonata
Family:	Limacidae
Genus:	Limax
Species:	L. flavus

Binomial name

Limax flavus
Linnaeus, 1758

The Yellow Slug (Limax flavus) is a type of keeled slug, noted for its olive-brown body and blue tentacles. The Yellow Slug feeds mostly on fungi, decaying matter or vegetables, and is common in England, Wales and Ireland, usually found in damp areas.

Like all slugs, Yellow Slugs moves relatively slow because they only have one muscular foot. Yellow Slugs are sometimes preyed upon by raccoons, geese, ducks, garter snakes, salamanders, moles, and shrews.

Yellow Slugs, like all other slugs, use two pairs of tentacles on their heads to sense their environment. The upper pair, called optical tentacles, is used to sense light. The lower pair, aural tentacles, provide the slug's sense of smell. Both pairs can retract and extend themselves to avoid hazards, and, if lost, can be regrown.