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Organic Snail and Slug Control Nothing is more frustrating than heading out into the garden and seeing your seedlings and plants chewed up by snails and slugs. With just one night’s of feasting, the slimy pests can devastate a newly planted vegetable garden. Fortunately, gardeners have organic options in control that aren’t toxic to the surrounding ecosystem. What Exactly is a Snail and Slug? Believe it or not, but snails and slugs belong in the mollusk family. The main difference between the two is the slug doesn’t have the spiral external shell that snails do. Both use their muscular foot to glide along and this muscle secretes a slimly substance. When this substance dries, it leaves the silvery trail you will notice on foliage. Both snails and slugs are hermaphrodites, meaning they have both female and male sexual parts. Snails lay approximately 80 white, roundish eggs at a time into…

“Both the Allied and the Central Powers used tens of thousands of homing pigeons to send messages between military detachments. In fact, they were so important to communication during the war that the British Defense of the Realm Act made it a crime to kill, wound, or otherwise molest, or not take adequate care of pigeons.”3 Pigeons saved hundreds of thousands of soldiers lives from all of the belligerents due to their keen ability to relay information quickly and efficiently. Among these…

This datasheet provided information on common slugs. It went into short detail about slugs’ dietary needs and how this can be damaging to plants kept in the yard. It also discussed slugs’ basic activity patterns and how they are drawn out at night and occasionally on rainy days. The main purpose of this sheet, however, was to provide information on how to maintain slug populations in your yard. The methods described included the elimination of shelter, using fermented materials as bait in a…

Sea slugs and aquatic plants have similar core features that allow both of them to acquire energy from light, but the sea slugs mechanism is far more involved and revolved around evolution. Elysia chlorotica, or the sea slug, have acquired the ability to conduct photosynthesis in their adult stages of life through their consumption of Vaucheria litorea. Vaucheria litorea are algae that are the primary diet of the developed sea slugs. Juvenile slugs acquire this ability when they ingest the algae…

The organism that I have chosen lives on my property, it is the Leopard slug, the scientific name for this organism is Linus Maximus. Before writing this essay I must admit I had a lot of apathy towards this pest that lived in my yard. As I systematically exam this creature I found it remarkable; it demonstrated its exceptional ability to adapt. As an illustration the Leopard slug occupies nearly world-wide distribution through human activities. The organism that I have chosen lives on my…

Slug line: The abbreviated text information at the beginning of the each filming to identify the time recorded, the location where it was filmed or information. Slug lines are also used in script writing and always appear in upper case letters with blank lines in between the text. For example, in the script the slug line will say Johnny is playing checkers with his siblings ON THE CHECKER BOARD and Johnny wins. The upper case text indicates information for the crew members to follow and in this…

for the slug, we believe that, if a paper towel is soaked in a low enough caffeine solution, the caffeine will either act as a deterrent, increasing the average speed of the slugs in order to flee from the uncomfortable environment, or as a stimulant, increasing the average speed of the slugs because of the biological receptor-binding response. Our independent variable in this experiment is the preparation of the damp paper towel, either containing a low caffeine concentration or no exposure to…

SLUG The Homeless Snail INTRODUCTION I am writing this introduction… Why am I writing this myself, you may well ask,…… alright I will tell you anyway, I don’t know any famous authors who would write it for me, in fact, I don’t know any authors and why would I, I don’t read very much and actually I’m not very keen on books and since I don’t read their books why would they read mine or introduce it. I remember, as a child, somebody asking me if I would like a book for my birthday, I replied, “I…

A type of brightly colored sea slug has a taste for microscopic marine creatures called zooplankton, and it feeds on them using a method that's never been seen before: It captures quantities in a gulp by using a middleman. The sea slug's unsuspecting helpers are hydroid polyps — tiny, coral-like animals that live in colonies and gorge on zooplankton. And the sea slug, known as a nudibranch, treats the polyps as living fishing nets, avidly scooping them up and swallowing them down as soon as the…

Many animals were used during World War 1. Each animal had a specific purpose, and the use of these animals contributed greatly to the war effort. Pigeons: Pigeons were used to carry messages during World War 1. Their keen sense of direction and reliable speed made pigeons a valuable asset to communication efforts. One of the most famous pigeons during World War 1 was Cher Ami, who carried 12 messages before being shot by enemy fire. Despite the injury, Cher Ami continued to carry the last…