Slug and Snail

A slug and a snail in my back garden in Hayes on 8 September 2011.

To get a good look at the slugs and snails that live in your garden, leave a piece of squashy fruit out on a wet night. These were attracted to a piece of mango, the bit that surrounds the large stone in the middle. After a couple of nights, the stone was cleaned off quite thoroughly.

I do not know their species, though I think the slug is a Garden Slug, Arion hortensis. But they have a delicate beauty, particularly the snail, with its varicoloured shell and those grey streaks that lead from its eye-stalks down along its body.