we got slugs

we do

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Someone collected flowers from along a waterfront trail and made a little bouquet. I was able to find where abouts each flower came from.

Foxglove, daisy, dandelion, green alder cones, corralberries, and a small queen anne's lace in the back there

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a trashcan with a picture of a trashcan on it identifying it as a trashcan

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this picture i took was smooth and very satisfying to me

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Rough-skinned newt (Taricha granulosa)

I nabbed her off the road to help her across. These guys are HIGHLY poisonous. This little dude has enough neurotoxin (tetrodotoxin [TTX]) in her little body to kill several adult men. But don't worry, she doesn't secrete it, it's just in her skin and muscles and eggs. So handling them is relatively safe as long as you keep them out of your mouth, away from cuts, and wash your hands handling.

And fun fact, the western gartner snake is primarily to blame for how overly potently toxic these newts are, and the gartner snake is one very few known poisonous snakes in the world.

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Banana slug (Ariolimax)

Found this pretty baby while I was on a hike. Banana slugs are the second biggest slug in the world (second to the limax cinereoniger, the ash-black slug), but this one was only about the size of my index finger. If I were to lick this baby the mucus would make my tongue go numb. I did not, but the thought did pass through my head. Just to see what it'd feel like.