Questions We're Often Asked: Slugs as Pollinators
So sorry, but marauding mollusks must be regarded as cum grano salis, taken with a grain of salt. And that, come to think of it, is a gooey way to dispense with slugs: sprinkle with salt and watch them dissolve into purple pulp
Slugs pollinate aspidistras. The assertion dates back about a hundred years to Europe. Observers there noticed slugs around the ground-level flowers of the popular houseplant and concluded this was their mode of pollination. (Hopefully this was in a greenhouse and not a dwelling). Amongst flowering plants, this remains unique--or is it?
A September 2014 paper in the American Journal of Botany labelled it "highly controversial" while admitting to a "most unusual pollination biology" for this complicated genus. Researchers cited mollusks, crustaceans, flies, collembolans; a species from Vietnam was confirmed as being pollinated by gall midges.
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