Snow Slugs

A unique, harmless creature that feeds on snowflakes and burrows in the delicious snow on mountaintops. They can cause some threat to creatures living here, but are entirely harmless.

Geographic Distribution

Snow slugs are predominantly found where there is vast abundances of snow. Mountaintops, snowfields, even some glaciers harbor these freezing creatures.

Impact

These creatures have a unique relationship with other living creatures in that they are hardly edible and may cause some issues. For example, they may honeycomb the underlayer of snow which on the surface looks safe to cross. However, the weakened snow may collapse and drop the crosser into some snowy pit without much help at rising. As such, they are found and moved, avoided, or destroyed.

Basic Information

Anatomy

Snow slugs have a front, black, tubular arm that snoops around embankments devouring any snowflakes it may find. It has little cilia along its body that give it traction as it drags itself though its self made miniature tunnels. The worms grow to be as big as an inch and an eighth of an inch across, though most stay much smaller. They are entirely white except their arm.

Genetics and Reproduction

Females lay eggs and males fertilize them. After a week they hatch. Eggs are only laid once every three months.

Growth Rate & Stages

The slugs start as eggs but burst out and immediately begin eating. They only have these two stages, but the last stage is most of its life and lost more growing.

Ecology and Habitats

Snow slugs needs snow, and not anything else. They choose specifically the places that are icy and cold year-round.

Dietary Needs and Habits

Snow slugs have diet entirely of snow and as such they eat entirely every flake of snow they can find.

Additional Information

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

The slugs have holes where normal slug eyestalks are, but its unsure how exactly they navigate.

Lifespan

8 months