The Midnight Trapeze: Why Seeing Leopard Slugs in Your Garden Is So Rare

for the entire display, holding both slugs as they extend their bodies into the open air.

The arrangement seems fragile, yet the slugs place their full trust in it. Beneath the strand, their bodies turn, curl and slowly unfurl around one another.

In the glow of a flashlight, they may appear almost luminous. Their pale forms catch the beam and create continue reading …