The poison doesn’t kill the prey, and sometimes they just slide away, which reminds me of lines from Gus Ferguson’s Chanson: “we heave our heavy portmanteaux / that hold dark secrets none should know / and which is why we go so slow / along the Rue d’Escargot.” Wikipedia describes it as a “brown broth that the larva can lap up”. Europe’s common glow-worm injects poison into slugs and snails, liquifying the – why yes, I am prepared to use this term – slug/snail meat. And being insects, their lives are harrowing and strange in the way only insects’ lives can be. ![]() ![]() glow-worms /8iMr59kK3z- Guardian Australia March 29, 2021 " series on unusual insects, animals plants and other natural phenomena, looks at.
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