29 December 2011  When barnacles were mollusks      Anonymous
said...  The larger shelly plates in the gooseneck barnacle,
once they are separated and are clean and loose, well they do
look superficially rather like the valves of a bivalve. I had a
hard time persuading a friend of mine who found some in the
beach drift on Nevis that they were not bivalve shells at all
but part of a barnacle. I don't think he believed me.   Susan J.
Hewitt  Anonymous said...  Umm random offtopic question (I lost
the related blog post where I saw three Deroceras slugs sleeping
together under a rock): do you happen to know why Deroceras
slugs would attack each other? I know they eat their dead but
the few I picked up from outside start biting each other if they
get close. Smaller slugs are clearly distressed by this and
escape. I'm asking because I'd like to put them all in a bigger
snailery I have but I'm afraid they will kill each other! I give
them protein-rich food in the form of tortoise food so that need
should be satisfie