Banana Slug

Description:

Banana Slugs are often bright yellow. It is the second largest slug species in the world. Banana slugs can grow up to 25 cm and weight 115 grams. They use their two pairs of tentacles to sense their environment. Banana slugs are decomposers. They process leaves, animal droppings and moss. Animals like raccoons, garter snakes, ducks, geese and salamanders eat banana slugs. The symbiotic relationship is Parasitism because the banana slug is harmed for getting eaten, and the other predators benefits. Banana slugs has a thick layer of mucus around their bodies for warmth. They use sexual reproduction. They mate and lay 75 eggs throughout the year.

Habitat:

Banana Slug’s habitat are somewhere in the forest where there is leaves to hide in. They find a hiding spot somewhere in a leafy area to lay their eggs and abandon them as soon as possible.