2007-03-09 10:21:26 · 10 answers · asked by Charlotte W 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
yes. slugs do have eyes, the senses of touch and smell, and and 27,000 teeth in their mouths. they are blind, and can pull their eyes "in." also, their mouths are'nt used for breathing.
2007-03-09 10:26:59 · answer #1 · answered by Rose♫ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most slugs have "eyespots," or, as they are occasionally known, "optic tentacles." If you get real close to a slug, or snail, you will see it has four (sometimes more) tentacles. Two on the top are usually longer, and have black spots on them. These spots are the eyespots. They are very primitive, and do not have lenses, so they can't see detail, but they can usually tell the difference between light and dark, and if a large shadow moves in fast enough,they will try to hide. However, they are not too good at catching detail, or even color, so you can often poke their eye stalks back in as long as you do not let your shadow fall on them. Feel like poking a slug? If you do, you may see the black eyespot get pulled deep down into the antenna before the antenna retracts all the way.
2007-03-09 11:17:22 · answer #2 · answered by ye_river_xiv 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes
2007-03-11 09:40:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they have very primitive eyes on the end of expendable stalks. They cannot see very well as there brain cannot process the information from a complex eye structure.
2007-03-09 10:43:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, I know they have these antenas. They are for something I guess so they might be but I don't think they can see as someone said...
2007-03-09 10:25:44 · answer #5 · answered by FuturisticKid 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll have to take a closer look at my ex next time we meet and then get back to you...
ooh... that was horrid... did I really just say that... does that mean I'm finally over him, d'ya think?
phew...
2007-03-09 10:29:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
are thay like snails and feel there way round never really looked at one that closely don't really want to ether i know they coarse havoc ion my garden and eat my hostas little b***rs
2007-03-09 10:27:01 · answer #7 · answered by old-bag 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES!...they have eyes so small you can't see them with the naked eye.And their sorta blind too like what one answerer said.
2007-03-09 10:30:07 · answer #8 · answered by Keith M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't know. never get close enough to see
2007-03-09 10:26:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL!! they have optical tentacles:
http://oregonstate.edu/Dept/nurspest/slug_anatomy.htm
2007-03-09 10:25:53 · answer #10 · answered by fluffernut 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋