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	Slug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Slugs are gastropods without shells or with very small shells (often which are internal), in contrast with snails from which they share a common ancestor, which have a prominent shell.
		Other slugs are found on land, but their soft, slimy bodies are prone to desiccation, so they are confined to moist environments.
		Slugs produce two types of mucus: one which is thin and watery, and another which is thick and sticky.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slug (685 words)

	Great Grey Slug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Grey Slug (Limax maximus; also known as the Tiger slug or the Spotted leopard slug) is the largest type of keeled slug, noted for its dark-spotted pale-grey body and the short keel on its rear.
		Its mating habits are also considered unusual among slugs — the hermaphrodite slugs court – usually for hours – by circling and licking each other.
		After this, the slugs will climb into a tree or other high area and then, entwined together, lower themselves on a thick string of mucus and exchange sperm.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Grey_Slug (219 words)

	slug (zoology)
		Slugs eat dead animal matter and plants; some species are carnivorous and eat other slugs, snails, and earthworms.
		Keeled slugs, such as the great grey slug, are usually longer, growing up to 20 cm/6.4 in long, and they have a ridge or keel along their backs.
		Slugs belong to the animal phylum Mollusca (molluscs), class Gastropoda (slugs and snails).
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0008675.html (352 words)

	Encyclopedia article: Slug (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Among the various species are the grey field slug, Deroceras reticulatus, the garden slug, Arion hortensis and the banana slug (additional info and facts about banana slug), Ariolimax columbianus.
		On top of the slug, behind the head, is the saddle-shaped mantle (The layer of the earth between the crust and the core), and under this are the genital opening and anus.
		Slugs eat using a radula (additional info and facts about radula), a rough, tongue-like organ with many tiny tooth-like denticles.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sl/slug.htm (454 words)

	Slugs
		Slugs are major pests of both commercially-grown chrysanthemums and lettuces, but when given the choice they always choose the lettuces.
		It is at this time, when slugs are at their most numerous, that the potatoes are most attractive to them because the surface haulms, on which slugs feed, will have died off.
		This means, of course, that while slug numbers can build up again rapidly after use of a molluscicide based on methiocarb, because the predators have been removed, after applying the nematodes the predators will remain to prevent slugs re-invading, and to mop up slugs hatching from eggs in the soil.
	www.cf.ac.uk /biosi/research/biodiversity/staff/wocs2.html (6970 words)

	Slugs
		The slugs have descended from various groups of snails through the reduction or complete loss of the shell, but their modes of life remain virtually the same.
		A slug's organs of smell are in its tentacles and enable it to detect food several feet away.
		The slugs are certainly not inconvenienced by their little passengers and don't so much as cough when the mites scuttle in and out of their breathing pores.
	www.the-piedpiper.co.uk /th11a.htm (997 words)

	Hate housework? Can't find a reliable cleaner? Try a slug.
		Slugs have a strong homing instinct, foraging in the damp night air and spending the deadly desiccating daylight hours in a cool, moist retreat.
		The leopard slug is a good mould-grazer, but tends to slip out of the bathroom at night to explore the house.
		At one point, great greys, stripys and a young red triangle shared the workload and Robinson was more than happy with their efforts.
	www.anapsid.org /slugcleaner.html (2025 words)

	Slug - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
		Slugs are similar to snails, but they have no shell.
		Slugs are active only when the temperature is above 5 degrees C. In dry, cold weather they stay deep in the soil.
		Slugs have both male and female reproductive cells (hermaphrodite), but must find a mate to exchange sperm before they can reproduce.
	www.rspb.org.uk /gardens/guide/atoz/s/slug.asp (292 words)

	Biology of slugs
		DIGESTION When feeding the radula of the slug shreds the food to little pieces,which go into the buccal cavity and the oesophagus.There are getting mixed with mucus and saliva.The foodthen goes into the crop where a large amount of juice is produced by the digestive gland.
		SENSES Like snails slugs have most of their sensory receptors concentrated around the head.Nerve knots,also named ganglia,process information gathered from the two pairs of tentacles.The lower,shorter,pair,the sensory tentacles, is used for smelling and maybe tasting.The upper,longer,pair,the optic tentacles is sensitive to light and smell.Although slugs can't see colors,they are able to distinguish light from dark.
		Often a slug will follow another slugs mucus trail and eat it.Then the slugs circle around eachother.The genitalia are being pushed out,often visible as a bluish swelling on the right side of the body.The slugs move closer together and the genitalia make contact.Sperm is transferred in the form of spermatophores.
	www.arnobrosi.com /slugbio.html (877 words)

	Sex and the Garden Slug (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Although slugs are hermaphroditic, each animal equipped with both male and female reproductive organs, they mate with themselves only if no other slugs are around.
		The great grey garden slug's penis is nearly half its total body length.
		The apophallated slug, says Forsyth, "cannot regrow his penis and is now obligated to be a female and forced to offer eggs."...
	ifaq.wap.org /sex/sexandgardenslug.html (391 words)

	slug species:Family Limacidae
		Limax maximus(Linnaeus,1758)Great Grey Garden slug The coloring is variable,dark grey to whitish.The mantle-shield is dark spotted.
		Young slugs are 6 mm,white translucent with pale violet grey tentacles.
		Lehmannia marginata(Mï¿½ller,1774) Is about 75 mm long and has a shield which covers a third of the body.The animal is grey or a reddish grey and has a light stripe on the back.On both sides runs a dark zone.
	members.tripod.com /arnobrosi/limacidae.html (687 words)

	Slug - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Slugs are gastropods without or with very small shells, in contrast with snails from which they evolved, which have a prominent shell.
		Frogs, toads, hedgehogs, and some birds and beetles are natural slug predators.
		Some slugs are notable garden pests and there are various methods of controlling them (see Pest control of slugs) including, slug pellets, beer traps, salt, physical bariers and biological pest controls.
	www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Slug (478 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Slug (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Slug, terrestrial gastropod, related to the snail, but with the shell represented by an internal horny plate overlying the respiratory cavity.
		Sea Slug, also known as nudibranch, an exquisitely coloured mollusc that exists without a protective shell.
		Gastropod, any mollusc of the class Gastropoda, which includes snails and slugs.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Slug.html (91 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Articles - Live in harmony with slugs
		The destruction of prized seedlings by slugs and snails in spring is one of life's certainties.
		The other relatively benign slugs, at least as far as destroying your delphiniums is concerned, are the great grey slug Limax maximus and yellow slug L.
		Victorian malacologists were adamant that great grey and yellow slugs would decline foods containing chlorophyll, and noted their liking for kitchen waste.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/animals/features/291feature1.shtml (506 words)

	Thr Great Grey Slug
		The Keeled Slugs all have a keel or ridge on the hind part of their body, and the lung opening is more than halfway back along the right hand side of the mantle.
		The Great Grey Slug falls into this category of slug and is the largest member of this group.
		This is a species of slug which is always found around human habitation.
	www.the-piedpiper.co.uk /th11a(2).htm (197 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Slug
		Drummer Tomas Palermo, bassist Damion Romero and guitarist Todd Williams kicked off Slug's illustrious career by staging a series of guerrilla performances in a campus quadrangle where the trio "entertained" fellow students with raging feedback and other Big Black-like noise assaults of guitars, boom boxes, turntables and a microphone.
		Within a year, Slug had added three more KXLU air personalities: singer Steve Ratter, second guitarist Rich Alvarez and second bassist Michael B. After landing some gigs in the greater LA area, Slug began releasing singles and EPs on its own Magnatone label, most of which are collected on the debut CD.
		Slug makes up for it with humor, interjecting samples of cartoons and preachers between the clatter.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=slug (510 words)

	The Good the Bad and the Slugly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The soils of the world are the true melting pot of the planet, because the eggs and other life stages of many small life forms have been transported inadvertently by humans far and wide for generations.
		And as is often the case, the imported species are problematical to the ecology of a region, by out-competing or preying upon natives that lack the evolutionary leg up to cope.
		Air passes through here to the gill, a reminder that slugs have an aquatic history and are brave pioneers of the terrestrial world.
	members.shaw.ca /skink517/good_the_bad_and_the_slugly.htm (544 words)

	Amazon.com: Zane Grey : Romancing The West: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Though he traces Grey's life from his early years in Ohio, when his father would not tolerate a son who wanted to be a writer, to phenomenal success later in life, the strength of May's work is his analysis.
		May's is a fresh view of Grey and his work, focusing on key periods of his personal life and their influence in shaping his major novels.
		Grey was primarily a romance writer who considered his novels to be romances true to the western spirit rather than actual facts of history.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0821411829?v=glance (715 words)

	Insects - Why Not Eat Insects by Vincent M. Holt (1885) 9
		The great grey slug (Limax maximus), the red slug (Limax rufus}, the fl slug {Limax ater), and the small grey slug are all to be found in great numbers in most parts of England, and when properly cooked are all equally good.
		Slugs may be secured without the trouble of a night attack, by placing garden refuse or cabbage leaves under the shelter of boards or tiles.
		To these traps the slugs will come in the night to feed, and, finding themselves sheltered when day breaks, will remain there to be caught, instead of returning to their usual strongholds.
	www.foodreference.com /html/artinsects9.html (1186 words)

	The wildlife in our garden: snails, slugs and worms
		In the USA The Black Field Slug is called the Garden Arion, while the Large Red Slug is referred to as Orange-banded Arion.
		Nearly all snails and slugs are a pest in the garden.
		It is a relative of the Great Slug, but rather indistinct and pale.
	www.gardensafari.net /english/snails.htm (2023 words)

	bootstrap analysis: the leopard in the garden
		Slugs are, of course, not hard to come by, especially if you are fond of hostas in your landscape.
		However, I did find a couple of intrepid researchers who were working on something more practical, the development of slug slime into an adhesive (slug glue should not be confused with glue slugs).
		Leopard Slugs are hermaphrodites, with each individual possessing schizophrenically-named organs such as an ovotestis and spermoviduct.
	nuthatch.typepad.com /ba/2005/05/the_leopard_in_.html (1102 words)

	The Shimmering Path
		Sadly it seems that the average gardener would rather reach for a poison to rid their gardens of snails and slugs - not only causing serious danger to other wildlife which feeds on them, but also ridding their gardens of these helpful refuse diners.
		Copper provides a very effective barrier to slugs and snails - and research* is proving that copper is also very beneficial to your soil, energising and harmonising the soil and producing healthier plants with increased yields.
		The Great Grey Slug [Limux maximus] does in fact do no damage to your garden crops because it lives on a diet of decaying leaves and fungi.
	www.gaias-garden.co.uk /Articles/gastropods.html (965 words)

	Hello SDS-1 \| Support Documents
		The strategic premise of the Super Dimensional Slug (a/k/a SDS-1) was that the mechanical mollusk would travel back in time and shoot down American bomber sorties before they bombarded their Nazi targets.
		The catapulting Slug was merely 3 hours away from impact when an unlikely "hero" saved Germany (and perhaps the entire planet) from catastrophe.
		Since then, the Slug hasn't proved to be the swiftest member of Dr. Cube's Posse, but his mobility and tenacity do seem to grow with every Battel.
	www.kaiju.com /bios/sds_02.htm (694 words)

	Slug Stories
		I sat down and said good morning to this young lady and closed the door, the other slug sat in the rear seat behind me. As customary I told the young lady I'll get off at M street since she is going there.
		This morning, slugging out of the old Hechinger lot in Woodbridge to 18th Street in DC, I was running a few minutes late, but when I got to the lot I was relieved to get a ride right away.
		I turned and looked at the other Slugs in the back seat and they were looking at me with eyebrows raised, wearing expressions like, "DO something!" I tapped the driver on the forearm after we were in D.C. Startled, he glanced at me, yanked off his headphones and got his bearings.
	www.slug-lines.com /Slugging/slug_stories.asp (9408 words)

	The Encyclopedia Frobozzica
		It lies near the point where the Great Sea's eastern shore dips underground, and has frequent patches of quicksand as a result.
		One giant slug encountered in the ruins of a lighthouse near Grubbo-by-the-Sea was as long as a human is tall.
		The 883 GUE edition of this publication stated that the misconception of spenseweed as a roadside weed is grossly inaccurate.
	jzip.sourceforge.net /frobozz/frobs.html (708 words)

	bootstrap analysis: May 2005
		The Bonehead Compendium has written a great summary rebuttal of all the wrong-headed assertions on the harmlessness of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, nicely annotation and referenced.
		Of course, the embargo contributes greatly to the economic woes of Cuba, and therefore indirectly to habitat destruction, the primary cause of the decline of the IBWO.
		Although there is still a great deal of unexplored habitat in eastern Cuba, Lammertink was pessimistic about the availability of enough suitable habitat for IBWO in the regions he explored.
	nuthatch.typepad.com /ba/2005/05 (7279 words)

	The Sea Slug Forum - Glaucus atlanticus
		Most of us are only aware of their existence when days of onshore winds blow great fleets of them on to the beaches, causing pain and angst for swimmers.
		Their foot and undersides of the cerata, (which because they float upside down is effectively their dorsal surface), is blue or blue and white which helps to camouflage them from predation (sea birds) from above.
		Their true dorsal surface, which faces down in the water, is silvery grey to effectively camouflage them from fish looking up from below.
	www.seaslugforum.net /factsheet.cfm?base=glauatla (447 words)

	A GUIDE TO THELAND SNAILS OF RANOMAFANA NATIONAL PARK MADAGASCAR
		A - Slugs are all hermaphroditic pulmonates which means they are both male and female in one animal and breath with "lungs".
		Because of their resistance to desiccation and mobility, slugs have been introduced to many regions, especially the families Milacidae and Testicellidae and to a lesser extent Limacidae.
		The mucus of slugs and snails besides its use in facilitating locomotion, is a contrivance for checking evaporation by surrounding the exposed parts of the bodies with a viscid medium.
	www.calacademy.org /research/MAD/MAD_GUIDE_2.htm (8201 words)

	PlanetAnachronox
		A large Waugee with grey fur, she's the leader of the tribe living in the Great Tree near Doren.
		Great place to go if you want to get laid, shake your groove thing for money, or want to find a girlfriend who you thought was dead.
		The tribe is presided over by the Queen Waugee, who has grey fur; they live in the Great Tree, located at the end of Slippery Rock Canyon in the Joyous Fern Valley.
	www.planetanachronox.com /features/encyclonox (7999 words)

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