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Why do slugs eat leaves?

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During the night is meal time for slugs [Gastropoda] since they're nocturnal feeders. Slugs tend to be environmentally friendly in the sense that their favorite foods are dead leaves, decaying plant materials, and fungi. But there are some slugs such as the Portuguese slug [Arion lusitanicus] that prefer the fresh, moist body parts of living plants.

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for the same reason you eat. its food.

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they secrete their juices

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