Ecology
Many slug species play an important ecosystem role by eating dead leaves, fungus, and decaying vegetable material. Other species eat parts of living plants.
Some slugs are predators and eat other slugs and snails, or earthworms.
Most carnivorous slugs on occasion also eat carrion, including dead of their own kind.
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