Bushwalk Australia

I went for a walk from Pierces Pass down to the Grose River yesterday.

I found this mango-coloured Red Triangle slug on a rock in the middle of the track near the top of the pass. Apparently they are quite common but I hadn't seen one before. It certainly has impressive colours.



It wasn't there when I walked back up the track about an hour later.

Party animal, comes to mind. (There's one in the latest Wild 119 that was used in a Victorian beer add, I think)

flatfoot wrote:I went for a walk from Pierces Pass down to the Grose River yesterday.
I found this mango-coloured Red Triangle slug on a rock in the middle of the track near the top of the pass. Apparently they are quite common but I hadn't seen one before. It certainly has impressive colours.
It wasn't there when I walked back up the track about an hour later.

Great find. I've walked Pierces Pass many times and never seen one of those. In fact I'd never heard of them before reading the current Wild article. It all makes sense now, the one in the magazine is all red and you can't really see the triangle.

What an amazing creature! I wonder what evolutionary advantage it gained from such an appearance? It actually looks quite delicious, like some kind of jelly-baby. Is there some kind of leaf it is trying to look like? Wow, fantastic animal!
edit/ps - how big is it, ff???

I'd say it would be about 10cm (i.e. 4 inches). It certainly stood out perched high on a rock in the middle of the track.

I wonder how long they take to grow to that size? It's the biggest slug i've ever seen.

sounds aweful to say this.. but it almost looks...... ? yummy?
i was imagining a slice of mango... or maybe a modified bannnana with a red tip

I'd prefer to leave eating things like that to this fellow:



or this contemporary version: