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A slug on a wall in Kanagawa, Japan.. Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc.The word slug is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a small internal shell, particularly sea slugs and semi-slugs (this is in contrast to the common name snail, which applies to ...
repels aphids, slugs, and snails [3] Lantana ukambensis: repels mosquitoes [1] Four o'clocks: attract and poison the Japanese beetle [2] French marigold: repels whiteflies, kills nematodes [2] Garlic: repels root maggots, [2] cabbage looper, Mexican bean beetle, and peach tree borer. Geranium: repel leafhoppers, the corn earworm, and the Small ...
Studies based on direct observations, fecal and gut analyses, as well as food-choice experiments, have revealed that snails and slugs consume a wide variety of food resources. [26] Their diet spans from living plants at various developmental stages such as pollen, seeds, seedlings, and wood, to
A leopard slug makes an appearance during plant removal at the Crawford County Fairgrounds. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290 ...
The slugs can be seen by the hundreds on cool, wet, misty mornings. [2] During the day, they hide in the plant litter at the base of the trees. [2] At night, they come out and climb the tree to eat algae and mosses growing on the tree trunk. [2] The slugs climb down the tree trunk in the early morning to hide and repeat the cycle. [2]
Arion is a genus of air-breathing land slugs in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs.Most species of this Palearctic genus are native to the Iberian Peninsula. [2]Species can be difficult to distinguish from one another upon cursory examination, because individuals of a species can vary in color and there are few obvious differences between taxa. [3]
Angiospermae; Scientific name Common name Family FIA Code (US) Conservation status Hardwoods; Aceraceae: maple family; Acer: maples; Acer amplum: broad maple Aceraceae (maple family)
The black slug often feeds upon seedlings, diminishing plants’ reproductive success, but the black slug does not appear to be feeding selectively, endangering one plant species over another. And the black slug's effect on native-Alaska slugs is unknown, but the black slug might be displacing the banana slug in BC, Canada; however, such ...