Ellen, are you talking about mushrooms and truffles? Do the slugs beat you to them?

I seem to be receiving more offers of slugs than of snails. But yes, I'd be interested in your slug trails - especially if they have had a chance to dry a bit and turn silvery. This is for a short (about 5 minutes) presentation to children who will attend future science fairs put on by the School of Life Sciences at ASU. I'm the only mollusk person on campus because ASU doesn't have a marine anything program. I'm just a volunteer, but the donated shell collections have been entrusted to me to enhance and create some outreach presentations.

We seem to have only two kinds of snails around Phoenix - Rumina decollata, and Cornu asperum. There may be a small slug around, too. But Phoenix is so dry that we almost never find the critters or their trails.

---- Ellen Bulger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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Snails aren't so common here, but slugs we got. You want slug trail shots?
Those I see all the time. They're my competition, always into the
chanterelles & boletes!

On Wednesday, September 25, 2013, Dale Snyder wrote:

> Could some of you take and send me some photos (preferably your own shots,
> not from the web, or pubs) of snails leaving a snail slime trail?
> I would like the same kind of documentation you would use for shells -
> collector, date, fairly exact location, and the snail species if you know
> it - but that's not so important.
>
> I have a couple of months to accumulate these, so it's not immediately
> necessary. If you do respond, please be sure to resize the pictures for
> e-mail (about 640 x 800) so I can print them or forward them on. We need to
> be able to see the entire picture on the screen without scrolling about.
>
> Here in the Valley of the Sun snail trails are much harder to come by than
> in the wetter climes of most of the rest of the country.
>
> Thanks,
> Dale Snyder=============
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