Wow, I went out to get my camera from the car and found these amazing native slugs out on the damp wood of my deck. There were two kinds, a smooth skinned slug and a bumpy skinned slug. Aren’t they awesome???
Veined slugs
There are about 30 species of native New Zealand slugs. All have a characteristic leaf-vein pattern on their upper side, for camouflage. Māori knew them as putoko ropiropi. Their biology is poorly known, but they are thought to live mainly on algae and fungi on the surface of plants. Slugs may huddle together, apparently to create a humid microclimate. They may also cluster around small pools of water or wet humus on larger leaves.
Native leaf-veined slugs have only one pair of tentacles – unlike introduced species, which have two. Also, the native species do not damage garden plants.
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/snails-and-slugs/2
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