December 23, 2015

Did you know slugs can eat the Portuguese Man of War? The sea swallow (also known as Glaucus atlanticus) is a small sea slug that feeds on the colony. The sea swallow consumes the venomous tentacles and stores the poison in sacs on the tips of its cerata (finger-like projections). Because of that, the venom becomes concentrated allowing the slug to deliver an even more painful sting than the Man of War. Ouch!