hey Can slugs and earthworms breed? Together, I mean - can a slug and an earthworm get busy somewhere under a bush or something? I ask because last night I saw rather a lengthy slug - I'm talking like half-eaten hotdog size, here; the sausage only, though, not the sausage and the breadroll - or perhaps rather a chunky earthworm. It was on the wall next to the garage door, gadding about in the pissing torrential downpour which we enjoyed last night. I've never seen an earthworm climb walls, which made me think it was a skinny slug, but it wasn't slug-black or even that lukewarm tepid sludge-brown which some slugs seem to favour. It wasn't snail olive-green, either, (and it didn't have a shell). But, it did have those little feeler/antennae/eye-stalk thingies that slugs have (and snails, but snails have 2 little ones and 2 long ones and slugs just have 2 medium-sized ones) even though it looked segmented like an earthworm, which only has crappy simple eyes on one of its pointy ends. And was about 4 inches long and very skinny, like an earthworm, but it was moseying around with a sense of purpose as opposed to the traditional earthworm blind-panic which seems to prevail every time you find an earthworm and for some reason it attempts to burrow between your fingers looking for soil and then craps on your hand. And, as I said right in the beginning, it was halfway up a wall; practically at head-height (which, in my case, is around 6'3" or 192cm metric) so that's pretty hardcore for a traditionally non-climbing species of annelid (earthworms are annelids, you know. Slugs are molluscs. It's true). I should have take the traditional science stand when you think you may have discovered a new species and gently killed it and sent it for testing. However, I was kinda getting rained on, I was kinda busting for a piss at the time, and then I kinda went to watch TV because the football was on. So now we may never know if my erstwhile Slugwormius wienermaximus is in fact a real new thing, or merely some non-impressive mutant. I mean non-impressive as in not like Rogue or Pyro or Magneto from X-men, because merely being half-earthworm-half-slug hardly screams superpowers now, does it? It's not like slugs or worms have some remarkable abilities. At least, not that we know of... although that whole cut-the-earthworm-in-half-and-it-will-eventually-grow-into-two is quite a clever party-trick. My own party trick is to mysteriously push people into the swimming pool. That, and making vast quantities of tequila mysteriously disappear. Some of my mates prefer the setting-my-backside-on-fire-and-whip-me-with-a-belt Jackass-esque stunts, but those have all been done. They are like so 5 minutes ago. ok bye -Dalius maximus-