Banana Slug
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Ecology
Banana slugs are detritivores, or decomposers. They process leaves, animal droppings, and dead plant material, and then recycle them into soil. They seem to have a fondness for mushrooms, and they spread seeds and spores when they eat. They move relatively slowly since banana slugs, like all slugs, have only one muscular foot.[6][5]
Raccoons, garter snakes, ducks, geese and salamanders sometimes eat banana slugs, but they roll the slugs in soil to bind the slime. Juvenile banana slugs are sometimes eaten by shrews or moles.
Salt is harmful to all slugs. Through osmosis, water diffuses to the surface of the skin to dilute the salt, causing the slug to dehydrate.[7]
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