Describing life processes of slugs and snails through a hands-on approach this book shows how slugs and snails move; why they leave a slimy trail in their wake and the part they play in soil nutrition. It also looks at the species around the world, from the common garden slug to the European Great Gray whose courtship ritual consists of dangling mid-air on a rope of slime while mating. This book, is one of a series which gives simple instructions explaining how to find, indentify, collect and study specific minibeasts. It also shows how to make a home, feed and care for them, how to release them successfully back into the wild, how to keep observational records of daily lives and where to find out more.

 

This is volume 10 in Minibeast Pets .

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by Hachette Children's Group .

Theresa Greenaway worked in the botany department of the Natural History Museum for five years and went on to take a degree in botany. Since then she has written many natural history books for children and adults.