Magnificent specimen ?
aren't the big ones less trouble than the little ones?......

And do you also know if you rub one of these on a wart and hang it on a hawthorn spike when the slug dies you will loose you wart.just something worth a mention.good luck.

How kind of you Ladyessex!

Coo. I haven't seen one of these for years.

It's Arion ater, the subspecies Rufus is a red variant.

It is the smaller Deroceras (white and slimy slugs) and Milax (black keeled slugs) that do the real damage to plants. Arion ater will eat anything, even each other at a push.

I'll have to show that picture around the nursery some evening--maybe it will make our little ones slip away in shame....Nahh!! :)

Buddlejagarden.Thanks for the update on its name.
Digginfit. I was in the Lake District when I took this while on a caravan site.
Kennyboy. I think I would rather keep the wart LOL.
Pamg. I couldn't resist taking a pic of it LOL.
Tugbrethil's. You'll give um nightmares LOL

Once in a while, a shipment of plants from northern California will include a Banana Slug (Ariolimax), scaring our younger carryouts, but not, sadly, the other slugs. :/

took a picture of 15 small slugs feeding on a 'still alive' worm back in the summer. The slugs are amazing group of critters though I 'm not particularly impressed with them when they are ravaging my plants.

Oooo! Poor worm, 5 onto 1 :0(