I am taking the liberty of forwarding a message I received through
Mollusca-L, since I know some of you may be able to contribute
knowledge and specimens to the people below. Please contact them at
their email addresses below, and if you think Conch-lers will also be
interested (as I think they will), copy to us here.
Thanks,
Fabio M.
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Dear Molluscan Colleagues....
This is a Forward from the Mammal Front,
Werner
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Dear Michael,
I had many slugs on snap-traps. On the peanut butter and also on the
dead mice. Slugs also enter live traps (probably depends on bait).
Some members of the genus Arion and Deroceras are surely not
indigenous to Americas. You can regard them as aliens. In Europe,
these are regarded as a pest to vegetable gardens. The genus Limax (in
Europe: Limax maximus, Limax cineroniger) are detrivorous, but very
agressive towords conspecifics....). On the other hand: Limacus flavus
seems to be very social, but that is a different story....
I am very happy to see a cross-over theme (Mammals / Mollusca). I am a
member of the
Task Force Limax <http://www.tf-limax.org/> .
This mail gives me the opportunity to ask for specimens of Limax sp.:
We need the animals alive for prep and DNA. In this sense, please
contact:
"Schneppat Ulrich" <[log in to unmask]>
"Barbara Nitz" <[log in to unmask]>
I passed this mail and the summary on to the Mollusca-L. - Hope you
don't mind...
Best wishes,
Werner
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Hello list: I saw something yesterday I had not seen before, and was
interested to see how common this is. I know there are carnivorous
slugs, but was not sure if they also ate carrion? I am doing some snap
trapping in NE MN, and have been amazed at the numbers of slugs on the
traps. They can clean the peanut butter off a trap in 24 hours. But I
also had 2 captured animals covered in slugs, and it appeared that the
slugs had begun to eat the animals. The first vole could have simply
had ear issues, but the next animal was obviously being consumed.
I am sure I am seeing something common I just have never seen before
since I normally do only live trapping. And I *still* can't get a
straight answer on whether slugs are native to MN or if like
earthworms the ones we have are European invasives.
Mike.
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Michael S. Rentz
PhD Candidate, Conservation Biology
University of Minnesota
5122 Idlewild Street
Duluth, MN 55804
(218) 525-3299
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Dr. Werner Haberl
Biologist, Consultant
Address: Hamburgerstrasse 11/17, A-1050 Vienna, Austria
Phone & Fax: (+431) 941 13 13 - E-Mail: shrews(at)chello.at
Former Chair, Insectivore Specialist Group, SSC, IUCN
TFL Task-Force-Limax <http://www.tf-limax.org/>
Öko-Team: Institut für Tierökologie und Naturraumplanung
<htpp://www.oekoteam.at>
Editorial Board: International J. of Ecology & Development
<http://www.ceser.res.in/ijed.html>
The Shrew Shrine: http://members.vienna.at/shrew or
http://members.chello.at/natura
The Dormouse Hollow: http://www.glirarium.org/dormouse
"I love trees. - There should be more of them ..."
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Fabio Moretzsohn, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Scientist
Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
6300 Ocean Drive, Unit 5869, Corpus Christi, TX 78412-5869
Phone: (361) 825-3230; Fax: (361) 825-2050
mollusca [at] gmail.com
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