How mysterious! It looks like a snail trail but surely, strong as they are, a spider's web wouldn't be strong enough to hold the weight of a snail! Very intriguing!
@maggie2@rhos Thank you ladies for your comment on this web. I also doubt that the net would hold up a snail.. It was so intriguing that I finally put on my garden glove and lifted it out of the plant (there wasn't any spider left in there) and it all integrated with no more metalic hue to be seen.
@bruni I'm back again. when I clicked on the links you sent they do open up..but when I write them down for future times and I type them in google it comes back with page not found. both of them. so I guess I'll just have to go back into my 365 calendar for August 21st and click on them there to get into your blog. that's ok too.
@lehy Hi Leena. I don't know if you still look at your album here on 356. just wanted to let you know that I enjoyed looking at your pictures when you and your husband were in China. they were fantatic and learned by see how they make silk..wonderful.
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Snail slime
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A crawling individual of the small land snail Cochlicella barbara leaves a slime trail behind it.
Snail slime is a kind of mucus, an external bodily secretion which is produced by snails, gastropod mollusks. Land snails and slugs produce mucus, but so does every other kind of gastropod, from marine, freshwater and terrestrial habitats. The reproductive system of gastropods also produces mucus internally from special glands.
Externally, one kind of mucus is produced by the foot of the gastropod, and is usually used for crawling on, the other kind of external mucus is designed to coat the external parts of the body of the gastropod; in land species this coating helps prevent desiccation of the exposed soft tissues. The foot mucus of a gastropod has some of the qualities of a glue and also some of the qualities of a lubricant, allowing land snails to crawl up vertical surfaces without falling off.[1]
The slime trail that a land gastropod leaves behind is often visible as a silvery track on surfaces such as stone or concrete. in my case on the leaves of a plant.
September 17th, 2012
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Fine Bruni - keep up your young inquisitive mind :)
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Snail slime
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A crawling individual of the small land snail Cochlicella barbara leaves a slime trail behind it.
Snail slime is a kind of mucus, an external bodily secretion which is produced by snails, gastropod mollusks. Land snails and slugs produce mucus, but so does every other kind of gastropod, from marine, freshwater and terrestrial habitats. The reproductive system of gastropods also produces mucus internally from special glands.
Externally, one kind of mucus is produced by the foot of the gastropod, and is usually used for crawling on, the other kind of external mucus is designed to coat the external parts of the body of the gastropod; in land species this coating helps prevent desiccation of the exposed soft tissues. The foot mucus of a gastropod has some of the qualities of a glue and also some of the qualities of a lubricant, allowing land snails to crawl up vertical surfaces without falling off.[1]
The slime trail that a land gastropod leaves behind is often visible as a silvery track on surfaces such as stone or concrete. in my case on the leaves of a plant.