Slug Lab

This experiment was performed on the common garden slug. Slugs are a form of gastropod mollusc. Other animals that fall into this category are snails, sea slugs, and sea snails. Slugs eat different forms of vegetation, fungus, and occasionally are carnivorous eating things such as snails, earthworms and other slugs.

This experiment investigated the preferred diet of a slug. It was carried out using the scientific method.

My hypothesis was incorrect according to my findings.

According to the experiment the slug preferred something sweet over the bitter coffee or the yeast. In the future multiple trials may increase the accuracy of the test. More availability of H2O and a greater amount of space may also have caused the slug to eat more.

Alex the Slug

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Experiment

The Two Pieces He Ate

Hypothesis

I believed the slug would prefer the iceberg lettuce with yeast.

Camille Holmes

Results

The slug preferred the sugar water lettuce and ate some of the plain lettuce while he ate none of the other two samples.

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Release your slug in the same place you found it or another suitable environment.

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Carefully remove lettuce pieces the next day using the 5x5 grid as reference to how much the slug ate. Record your findings.

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Allow the slug 24 hrs. to consume food.

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Place each of the four pieces into the container making sure they do not touch and label each accordingly.

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Mix the Coffee, Sugar and Yeast into equal amounts of water. Dipping three of the four pieces into a different mixture.

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Cut four pieces of lettuce using the grid as a guide.

Materials

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Place the slug in a sealed container with air holes. Along with some sort of moisture to prevent drying out.

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Locate a slug. Slugs prefer to be out at night or occasionally in the early mourning when there is no possibility to be dried out due to the sun.