When life hands you lemons, stuff your face.
The Humboldt Herald
Provoking Humboldt County since 2006
-
Recent Comments
walt on Petition to ban plastic b… Anonymous on Petition to ban plastic b… Anonymous on Petition to ban plastic b… Anonymous on Petition to ban plastic b… Thorstein Veblen on Petition to ban plastic b… Fred Mangels on Petition to ban plastic b… Fact Checker on Petition to ban plastic b… -
This looks like a bluetooth version of a lemon. Is this a test? There’s not much to go on, just a photo. I know it’s worth a thousand words but what? It’s kind a creepy like the worm that used to be at the bottom of a bottle of tequila.
All right, I’ll have the banana lemon twist with a shot of tequila.
I’m not driving. What the heck?
Banana slugs don’t seem so yellow when observed beside a lemon.
and if they’re not all over your windows leaving slimy trails and brown droppings, they’re in your compost heap having a meal!
The banana slug’s ecstatic curl made me grin. Photographic humor hasn’t been done enough. Hooray for this one.
Thanks, Kym. Your photos are always in inspiration to shoot more pictures.
Mmmm, chicken fried slugs with a spritz of lemon juice would hit the spot right now.
Slugs who are green?
What can it mean?
Go back as you were
or live sight-unseen.
I hope that’s an organic lemon Heraldo, and not some “Conventional” type. You wouldn’t want pesticides entering into the food chain and absorbed by an unwitting ……… whatever it is that eats nanner slugs.
Slug says, “Yum! Compost good for my tum!”
There is a recipe for these in A Taste of Humboldt. Can
you imagine?
More than you ever wanted to know, apophallation amongst the hermaphrodites! (not for the squeamish)
Apophallation might be a good link for Chocolate Covered Xanax.
A snake on my property enjoys them. I have seen a fox settle for a banana slug after being outsmarted by our friend the skunk. It would be safe to assume that any animal which eats other slimy things would enjoy banana slugs. Salamanders?
I have always been puzzled at U.C. Santa Cruz having the sports slogan “Banana Slugs – No Known Predators.”
kym.. could you ‘splain why you think that is an ecstatic grin more than a sourpucker on his-her gaping maw? have you seen them grin before, or are you just being your sweet and positive self again? and where are the brown spots like we have around h’yar?
given that they are his-hers (hermaphrodites), mightn’t the humble banana slug be the blog totem animal of this very blog?.. thus embracing the persistant rumors of your heraldo/heralda identity.
just a suggestion…
thanks and no thanks slugwhisperer! links to triple XXX slug porn are a welcome relief from the down and dirty of local politics!
OMR, I wasn’t referencing the slug’s mouth though it seems a bit puckery. I was talkin’ bout the whole body wiggle.
Try googling banana slug recipes. This one might be
especially tasty form ingesting lemons.
Slimes of passion: ” …slime is the only thing separating them from the cruel world.
All parts of the slug body make slime, but different areas produce different types. The pedal gland, in the foot, secretes a thick, sticky slime that insulates our friends from the ground. It also keeps slugs slithering along, because the slippery critters move by contracting the muscles of the foot in a wave-like motion. This slime protects the soft body from rough surfaces and prevents desiccation. It can even be used as a defensive weapon….
While the pedal gland makes thick slime, other glands are churning out thin slime, the stuff that makes up the “slime trails” you see early in the morning. Slugs can move vertically (like very limited spiders), using a thin slime “cord” produced at their tail ends.
Slug sex depends on slime, too. (You just knew we had to get back to sex, didn’t you?) Couples lay down a thick layer of slime as a sort of blanket to mate on. As a way of getting to know each other, they taste and eat each other’s slime. This could be a way to get hormonal information, or it could be a convenient snack to fuel them up for consummating the deal.”
Given the previous glimpse into the love life of banana slugs, I am shocked that no one has contributed the more infamous of their Latin names A.Dolichyphallus.
And a last practical tip:
“If you ever have slug slime on your hands, don’t try to wash it off because water increases the amount of slime. Instead, let the slime air dry, wave your hands in the air, and rub it off between your hands or with a paper towel. Dry Boraxo soap can also be used to remove it.”
(any parallels between b.s. and politicians is purely coincidental)
“Slug slime was originally thought to behave like a bowl of spaghetti—the more tangled the strands, the thicker the mucus. But researchers studying the chemistry of slug slime at the University of Washington (where else?) have found that it is a highly organized polymeric material that can absorb water extremely rapidly—up to 100 times its initial volume. Once the mechanisms and molecules of slug slime are better understood, researchers foresee numerous potential applications in materials science and bioengineering, such as pollutant traps for sewage treatment plants, effective water-based lubricants, and improved surgical implants and wound coverings. Hurray for the slugs!”
theme song of the UCSC Banana Slugs
“Banana Slug
to the Tune of ‘Twist and Shout’
CHORUS:(all together)
Baa-nah nuuuhh SLUG SLUG SLUG SLUG!!!!
Ba-nana slug, banana-nana-nana
Ba-nana slug, banana-nana-nana
Ba-nana slug, banana-nana-nana
You know I love my baby
I love the way that she hugs
Some people don’t understand it
She’s a banana slug
CHORUS
He’s got just one foot
Ain’t got no toes
he hangs out in the forest
and helps to decompose
CHORUS
Some folks say he’s gross
but I won’t hear that jive
‘cuz if it weren’t for my baby
the forest might not survive
CHORUS
The way you wiggle your antenna
You kknow it gives me such bliss
Come on come on banana slug
and let me give you a kiss
CHORUS
The way you slide through the forest
You know you look so fine
Come on come on come on banana slug
and let me lick off your slime!
CHORUS
You know you twist so good
You know you slime so fine
Well, slime a little closer now
and show me that you’re all mine!!
CHORUS”
“The great Redwoods benefit from the nitrogen rich scat produced by the slugs. The slugs will not eat any part of a Redwood tree. However, will eliminate any plant that competes with the Redwoods for space, water, light and nutrients…
Banana slugs were a food source for the Yuroks Indians.”
‘”Banana slugs are elegant if you look at their design, coloration and size — they’re like the bald eagle of the slugs and worth going out of your way to find,” Gordon said.’
The diligent, if demented, posters here are missing one of the interesting stats about our slimey lil friends…. records of 12 hour mating rituals! 12 hours out of a middle-aged 3 year old b.s. life is comparable to 240 hours for a sixty year old human…. a ten day sex ritual! at least they have their priorities straight!
when i shared some of the content of this post with a eureka native, he confided for the first time to anyone a traumatic experience attempting to separate two slugs in a slather. he told me he felt much lighter revealing this incident.
i share this to let you know heraldo that you don’t always see the good that ripples out from your blog, in this case a therapeutic release of childhood trauma.