Abstract serrated v patterns made by slug rasping off and eating a fine layer of fungus hyphae a white pin mold surface wood


The radula is used in two main ways: either as a rake, generally to comb up microscopic, filamentous algae from a surface; or as a rasp, to feed directly on a plant. Here it is used to rasp off a layer of pinmold fungi


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Photo credit: © Yon Marsh Natural History / Alamy / Afripics
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