- Hedgehog Arion is a small slug that was feeding on Wild Iris leaves in the Very Beary Berry Wetlands.
- The slug was identified as Arion intermedius by using the key in Slugs of British Columbia -- a key to http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/ben/ben320.html
- This is an invasive slug that seems quite common in Southeast Alaska. To learn more about this species look at /sites/default/files/Arion_intermedius_Gastropoda_Stylommatophora_first%20%281%29.pdf
- In this publication they mention: Its worldwide invasiveness is apparently facilitated by its feeding habits and particularly by its reproductive strategy of strict self fertilization which is unusual in pulmonates.
Hedgehog Arion
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