# Has there been a quiet slug apocalypse? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 24, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-quiet-slug-apocalypse/918927 "2020-08-24T22:27:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-quiet-slug-apocalypse/918927/21 "2020-08-29T04:44:27Z")
I was about to ask if the white mold-like half was a fungal infection! That’s really cool. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-quiet-slug-apocalypse/918927/22 "2020-08-29T05:00:15Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > (Later that night, a pair of the local small snails used the mushroom [as a location to meet and make even smaller snails](https://youtu.be/bymTPImBE2E).) I felt like Jerry Falwell Jr watching that. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-quiet-slug-apocalypse/918927/23 "2020-08-31T19:33:34Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > You have (probably) taken a picture of an agonizing infection 🙂. I think you have a shot of bolete being parasitized by its fungal arch-nemesis [Hypomyces chrysospermus](https://www.mushroomexpert.com/hypomyces_chrysospermus.html), which is the white bit starting to engulf the cap. You were absolutely right on this. I have been keeping a watch on the mushroom (especially because it attracts snail activity) and the white was actually a powder on the surface instead of the surface color as I had assumed. The parasite is now deep in the yellow phase. And possibly psychotrophic. Late last night I found three snails grouped a few inches from the decaying remnants and put them on top to see if they wanted to eat it. They did, but quickly started acting weird. I think that I may have accidentally drugged them. (Even while leaving they seemed less nervous than usual around the ants.) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/HayPcg898a8/hqdefault.jpg "Snails acting weird at 8x") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HayPcg898a8) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-quiet-slug-apocalypse/918927/24 "2020-08-31T19:43:44Z")
Other adventures of snails in 'shroomland. (After seeing so many ants around, I sprinkled around some sugar and uncooked grits to attract more action.) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/j4x60lfu35k/hqdefault.jpg "The daily life of a snail.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4x60lfu35k) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/fgypzApWNXc/hqdefault.jpg "A snail in an ant war, part 1") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgypzApWNXc) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0pIePpY8v5s/hqdefault.jpg "A snail in an ant war, part 2") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pIePpY8v5s) (In the last two videos with the red-on-black ant war going on in the background, note the periodic appearance of the big red ant with the little (I think dead) black ant latched on to a back leg, with the red ant trying shake it off like a mailman with a Chihuahua.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-been-a-quiet-slug-apocalypse/918927.md?page=1)