Slugs are gastropods without shells.. The body has a roll-like shape and is conventionally divided into head, torso and leg. The leg is the lower, muscular part of the body, shaped like a flat sole. There are two pairs of tentacles on the head, with eyes at the end of the longer tentacles. The body is covered with soft, mucous skin; mucus is produced by the skin glands and serves to protect against drying out and the effects of various foreign substances, including chemicals.

In snails, the integument of the body produces a spirally twisted shell. At the top the shell is blindly closed, at the other end there is a hole - the mouth. The diameter of the shell whorls increases with the growth of the animal from the apex to the mouth. In case of danger, the animal completely retracts its body into the shell.

Structure and general information

The oral organs of slugs and snails of the gnawing type are represented by a horny jaw in the form of a bracket with a tongue covered with teeth - a “grater”. The tongue is a muscular roll, covered with a thin cuticle and bearing hard teeth arranged in transverse rows.

Hermaphroditic animals, internal, cross fertilization. They lay up to 400 eggs in groups in various natural shelters - under lumps of soil, at the base of plants, especially in places where weeds grow, under film, boards. The presence of weeds and debris on the site creates favorable conditions for their reproduction. Development is direct. Young slugs and snails are similar to adults, but are smaller in size. The animals are moisture-loving and reproduce in large numbers when there is excess moisture, so they are numerous in rainy summers. In hot, dry weather, adults burrow deep into the soil, and young individuals and eggs die. Crepuscular animals, feed late in the evening or at night; During the day they are found under lumps of soil and various shelters, but in cloudy weather they can be found on plants during the day. The eggs mainly overwinter under lumps of soil. In the spring, young individuals are born and reach sexual maturity within 2–3 months.

Types of slugs and snails

Slugs and snails are divided into three families. The largest representatives of slugs belong to the family Limacides, the length of the body in the straightened state is 40–200 mm. This family includes the fawn or arable slug, reticulated slug, agile slug, and large slug.

In the slug family Arionids body length in the straightened state is 20–70 mm. This includes the following representatives: bordered slug, brown slug, garden slug.

Family helicides or snails. The body of animals in the straightened state has a length of 60–80 mm, and is covered on top with a spirally twisted shell. The shape and color of the shell varies among different species. Before wintering, the outer opening of the shell (mouth) is closed with a lid consisting of two layers. The outer layer is calcareous, the inner layer is made of hardened mucus. The sink may also close when hot, dry weather sets in. This family includes the following representatives: grape snail, garden snail.

What do they eat?

Snails and slugs are polyphagous pests that damage all vegetable crops, but prefer cabbage, cucumber, lettuce, peppers, eggplant, radishes, and parsley. They eat seeds and sprouts, the growing point of young plants, grape leaves, dugout berries, and carrot roots, while eating irregularly shaped holes in the succulent plant tissues. They can damage various parts of ornamental plants, eat flowers of various plant species, and bulbs of gladiolus. The harmfulness increases sharply in rainy or cloudy weather. They are found in closed ground, where they penetrate due to poor insulation of premises or as a result of drift with containers or with the substrate. Various types of cultivated plants are also damaged there.

How to detect

Slugs and snails are detected as follows. On the leaves, in the process of feeding and moving, they leave characteristic traces of dried silver mucus, by which it is easy to distinguish the damage caused by them from damage caused by caterpillars or beetles.

Control measures

The main measure for exterminating slugs and snails is weed control and clearing the area of ​​boards, boxes, old film and debris. These are the main places of accumulation and breeding of slugs.

In small areas, it is practiced to catch slugs under shelters that are placed on the soil surface. Large plant leaves, boards, opaque film, slate, etc. can serve as shelter. It is advisable to moisten the soil under the shelters. Once a day, the shelter must be raised and slugs collected from there, followed by their destruction.

In greenhouses and in individual areas, paths can be sprinkled with iron sulfate (10 g/mg), superphosphate (5–8 g/mg), and tobacco dust. If the number of slugs is high, you can pollinate the soil under the plants with superphosphate (30–40 g/mg), slaked lime (30 g/mg), a mixture of lime and tobacco (20–25 g/mg), sprinkle with a solution of potassium salt - 1 kg per 10 l of water, consumption rate 1 l per 1 mg. This should be done late in the evening, when the slugs crawl out of their shelters.

Among chemical agents, there is the drug Groza G (60 g/kg). Granules of the drug are scattered on the surface of the soil between rows and paths at a rate of 30 g per 10 mg.

Slugs are readily eaten by gray toads, which often settle in garden plots. They are sometimes mistaken for pests.

Recently there have been reports in newspapers and on television that giant slugs have been seen in gardens and in nature. In appearance they do not differ from ordinary ones. But here's the size! When moving, they stretch up to 10-12 and even 15 cm! These "naked snails" are red-brown to dark brown in color and are more visible in the grass. But, oddly enough, they don’t really hide. They creep impressively along the ground in search of tastier greens. Gardeners are concerned with the question: what to expect from such mutants if they multiply greatly.

The giant slug is a relatively new inhabitant of central Russia, having appeared in the Moscow region only in the last few years. It was also seen in other adjacent areas, including the Nizhny Novgorod and Yaroslavl regions. People gave it names: red slug, red slug, Spanish snail... People probably scoured the Internet, which is where the geographical name came from.

Mutants or not?

When you first meet them, these huge creatures cause fear. There was talk among summer residents that giant slugs are mutants of our ordinary slugs, and their size is the result of the use of pesticides. In this regard, horror stories are told about genetic engineering and the consequences of chemical plant protection.

In fact, ecology has nothing to do with it, especially genetic mutants. The large gastropod is a typical example of the introduction of an agricultural pest with vegetables, fruits and seedlings. Essentially, it is a “foreign invader.”

The red roadside slug (Arion rufus) is a species of slug from the Arionidae family.

It reaches a length of 18 cm, although individuals no more than 10 cm are more common. Some sources also mention another species, the Spanish or Lusitanian slug (Arion lusitanicus).

The species are very similar to each other. But which species encroaches on our flowers and beds is not so important. The main thing is that they are more voracious than ordinary slugs, which naturally causes concern.

Initially, red slugs lived in the south of Portugal and Spain (in the territory of the ancient Roman province of Louisiana, from which one of the species got its name). Climate warming, as well as an increase in trade relations with these countries, led to the fact that red slugs, traveling throughout Europe, gradually reached our lands.

How dangerous are they?

In Europe, red slugs have proliferated and are recognized as catastrophic pests. What are our prospects?

In temperate climates, in areas of risky farming, the development of gardening is hampered by frosty winters. The same factor should restrain the proliferation of large slugs.

Our winters cannot be compared with Spanish ones, and the size of European aliens is quite large, so it is more difficult for them to winter than for ordinary slugs. Only those individuals that hid most successfully are preserved. But there are still eggs left.

The egg is a more resilient form of life, and one slug can lay up to hundreds of eggs in one clutch. Babies from eggs grow quickly and actively gain weight.

The diet of Spanish snails is no different from what ours eat, but they need much more food. If our slug just bites into a berry, the giant one will eat it whole!

Our slug treats the plant delicately. In young seedlings, it eats one leaf at a time, while its “big brother” eats the entire plant. Overnight, your lettuce bed will be destroyed if it is attacked by red slugs.

Sometimes we ourselves help pests to multiply. We scare away moles, shrews, snakes and natural enemies of slugs, and at the same time create ideal conditions for wintering compost heaps.

The red slugs are coming. For several years now they have been living in the Moscow region and other regions. Sooner or later, they will appear for you too. Their appetite is brutal. Get ready to defend!

What to do?

First of all, you need to understand that you cannot defeat them with chemical means. Did the chemistry help you a lot against ordinary slugs? How they lived is how they live!

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​. First of all, slugs are prey for hedgehogs, moles and shrews. A hungry rat will not disdain a slug. Many amphibians will also readily snack on slugs: frogs, toads, salamanders. Slugs are part of the diet of lizards and snakes. And there are also birds: large passerines, most ravens, many waterfowl are ready to snack on gastropods.​

​A huge slug - up to 25 cm long, yellow in color, sometimes with tiger-brown spots, distributed along the Pacific coast from California to southern Alaska. During the process of evolution, this mollusk lost its shell. From the point of view of adaptability, this turned out to be more advantageous - there is nowhere to hide “halfway”, but you can squeeze into any crack and even burrow deep into the ground, hiding from drought or enemies.​

How to remove slugs?

​ATTENTION! If the berries are already ripe, then you cannot use chemicals, as the strawberries will become toxic. And we want to grow an environmentally friendly product in our garden.​

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​In addition, they appear in computer games (for example, the Royal Slug in Terriak) and as characters in books (the Horned Slug is used as an ingredient in magic potions).​ Mucus saves them from drying out

​, ends are tapered.​

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Overview of slug species: large roadside slug, large black, naked slugs and a number of others

​Popularly also called Spanish and Lusitanian. Brought to Russia by accident ​It is distinguished by the presence of small black dots and specks​ Scientists have found that the diet of a voracious slug

Types of slugs

Vegetable (garden)

​There are some animals or insects, the very sight of which causes disgust in most people. All living creatures perform some kind of mission on Earth, but not many women can calmly look at this naked creature, which leaves behind nasty marks on plants or walls. As long as they don’t try to breed them in gardens or basements. And it happens that they get into apartments, causing a lot of inconvenience with their mere appearance. What are these slugs, and how can you get rid of them effectively and quickly?​ ​Red roadside slug on the edge of the forest (near the reclamation ditch)​ The slug has many enemies - large birds, raccoons feast on it, and even a coyote will not disdain the slug in times of hunger. The slug itself feeds on everything it comes across - leaves, lichens, mushrooms, all kinds of dead living creatures and even excrement. The benefit of the slug lies in its indiscriminate feeding - it speeds up the processing of organic matter in nature.​

​The most difficult of all methods of fighting slugs is collecting them by hand;​ ​Lehmannia nyctelia​​However, do not get carried away by their non-standard attractiveness

​, regularly released for protection. Lives in Europe, including the CIS countries. Settles in always wet meadows, near various bodies of water and in swamps.​ ​lives in warm regions of Europe​

​covering the mantle.​ ​includes more than 160 types of crops​​What are slugs?​

​Even if all these enemies were not ready to attack an adult red slug, which is estimated to reach a maximum length of 15 cm, they would destroy the vast majority of the small gastropods. But this doesn't happen. For a very obvious reason - most of the listed enemies of slugs are enemies of agriculture, only larger and more visible, and not only European, but also our Russian farmers have been successfully fighting them for a long time.

He has four “horns” on his head. Two long ones - with small primitive eyes at the end. They can distinguish between light and dark and possibly the shape of objects. By bending its horns, the mollusk can simultaneously look in any direction. The lower tentacles are the organs of touch and smell. And if the slug’s eyesight is weak, then God has not harmed its sense of smell - thanks to it, it finds its often unsightly lunch. Soft and boneless, mollusks gnaw, or rather grind, food with their specially developed dental “grater”. They move with the help of wave-like movements of the muscles located on the sole of their huge “legs”.​ ​Another way that​ ​, eating a cap mushroom​and still remember the damage they cause. You can learn this from the material “Methods and methods of dealing with slugs.” After reading it, you will become familiar with chemicals and traditional methods of fighting slugs. Also, read our article “Fighting slugs in the cellar (basement).​

Naked

​Another exotic guest, this time from Eastern Australia​ ​Differentiated by increased moisture-loving properties, resistant to cold​.​

In addition, it also has a longitudinal black stripe running across the entire surface.​ ​. Outwardly, it is completely inconspicuous; thanks to its color, it is difficult to detect.​​We will try to study these creatures in more detail in order to choose the right method to combat them. There is such a class of animals - gastropods. Our opponents belong to them. If ordinary snails have a shell, then in slugs it is either underdeveloped or does not have one at all. They lay their eggs in the soil, to a depth of approximately 20 centimeters. The larvae do not immediately come to the surface, and live in the ground for about two weeks. Simply loosening the surface layer of soil can destroy them. At the age of two or three months, slugs mature, and in a year they are capable of raising two generations. These creatures live quite a long time - up to five or seven years. During the winter, they hibernate after burrowing into the soil or fallen leaves. Both larvae and adults feed on plant foods. Most often in dachas you can find a garden or grape snail. The ones that cause the most damage are the black creatures, which reach a length of up to 15 centimeters. Garden slugs are slightly smaller in size - up to 4 cm.​

​There are no moles - there are slugs. There are no frogs - there are slugs. There are no birds - there are slugs. Why be surprised?​ The slug's head is covered with a "mantle", and there is a breathing hole on the right side. These mollusks are hermaphrodites, having both male and female reproductive organs, which are also located in them... on the head. They lay their eggs in a hole on the ground, from which small slugs soon hatch and crawl around.​

​will help get rid of pests - the use of ash​ Probably, due to the lack of sufficiently effective devices to prevent dehydration, slugs live only in moist biotopes, such as, for example, the litter of deciduous forests. In the ecosystems existing there, they play a significant role, eating fallen leaves, non-lignified parts of living plants, as well as mushrooms (including those that are poisonous to other organisms). Representatives of some species are predators and necrophages, eating living soil invertebrates (for example, other gastropods and earthworms) and their corpses.​ ​Different types of British slugs​

​. Its appearance is somewhat different from other slugs. It has 2 tentacles instead of the normal 4.​ ​.​ ​Portugal and Spain are considered its homeland. Can reach 200 mm, but this is rare. The average length of adult slugs is 9-11 cm.​

Big European

​The body shape is oval​ ​The body may be colored brownish​ But you can meet them not only in the garden or garden. These creatures can easily get into the basement, cellar or even into an apartment. If you haven’t seen them yet, the presence of these nasty creatures will be revealed by the shiny mark that they leave on the floor or walls. It should be noted that many chemicals that are effective against other insects simply do not work on slugs. You will need to look for special molluscoids based on copper sulfate or metaldehyde. But you can use them in beds by spreading the granules between the plants, but this cannot be done in cellars and other places where vegetables are stored.​

​A limiting factor in the spread of slugs could be droughts in southern Europe - slugs do not know how to live in a dry climate and quickly die in the absence of moisture. Land reclamation and the transfer of agriculture to technologies using irrigation contributed to the reproduction and comfortable life of slugs. You can, of course, write abstruse articles about the influence of a comet named after an unknown astronomer on the biosphere of the planet, but in fact, we ourselves paved convenient paths for slugs to travel and organized excellent feeding grounds for them.​

The banana slug does not harm forests and agricultural plants, however, other types of slugs brought from Europe cause serious damage to gardens and vegetable gardens. Among them is the now common black slug, slightly shorter and thicker than a banana slug and with a “ribbed” body to the touch. Small slugs are a real scourge for agriculture, especially in the combination of clay soil and humid climate.​

​. Ash can be obtained from a stove or from a regular fire. Before working with ash, it must be sifted through a sieve several times. Apply a thin layer of ash to the strawberry bushes. Of course, it will become very dirty, but it can be easily cleaned with water, but slugs will no longer spoil the berries; Jerusalem slug

​Most land slugs belong to the pulmonate snails from the stalked-eyed group (​

Large roadside or leopard

​And in addition, it is decorated with a clear red or purple triangle on the mantle. The color of the body is very diverse, ​Feeds on various berries​ The color is monochromatic, usually red, brick, orange. The mantle and body are colored the same. The horns are black.​

​, rounded at the ends.​ ​, gray or beige color with yellow and white shades. The mantle is weakly expressed, it is almost invisible on the body.​If you notice a slug in the house, how to get rid of it? In the summer, you can remove all your preserved food from the cellar and carbonate this room. A sulfur block or ground colloidal sulfur should be placed on an iron sheet. A checker purchased in specialized stores is easily ignited by itself, and the ground powder is poured onto the burning coal. You should strictly adhere to safety rules to avoid sulfur poisoning. The premises should not be opened for about three days. When you bring a new batch of food into the cellar, make sure that slugs do not get there again with them.​

​In our Russian conditions, winter frost can affect the numbers of both Lusitanian and red slugs. Adults and small slugs overwinter in the soil, burrowing into it and falling into suspended animation. Our winters cannot be compared with Spanish ones; the soil in the forest can freeze several tens of centimeters deep. The size of the European alien is quite large; keeping all vital systems intact is much more difficult for him than for our ordinary slugs.​

​It's hard to imagine, but these slugs are edible. Representatives of some Indian tribes used them for food in ancient times. It happened that the first settlers fried them in oil. In one of the towns of California, a festival is held, the highlight of which is the preparation and mass consumption of banana slugs.​

You can also sprinkle the perimeter where strawberries grow. Slugs have a fairly wide range of enemies, including predators. Many vertebrates feed on them, however, there are no specific “slug eaters” among them. Of the mammals, slugs are readily eaten by hedgehogs, moles, shrews and some mouse-like rodents; of birds - rooks, jackdaws, starlings and some gulls, and of poultry - chickens and ducks. Slugs are also part of the diet of many frogs, toads, salamanders, lizards and snakes.​ ​Stylommatophora​

Great spotted

​there are soft pink, milky white, dark or light cream ​severely damages plants in greenhouses​​The body is completely covered with wrinkles​

​Distributed in the southern part of Europe and Asia, as it is quite thermophilic.​ ​The body is abundantly lubricated with mucus, which is secreted more than in other species.​ Pollination of the soil with lime (about 20-30 grams per square meter) repels these mollusks. They also sprinkle the ground with salt or treat the plant with a saline solution using a sprayer. But an overdose with this method can lead to their drying out. Try watering your plants with a solution of citric acid (25 grams per bucket of water) or vinegar (25 ml of a 9% solution is enough for 10 liters of water). It is advisable to spray or water the leaves once a week in the evening. If you are being attacked by slugs from a neighboring garden bed and you don’t know how to get rid of them, then try using a lime solution.​

​Red roadside slug in all its glory​​In general, of course, the slug does not take pride of place even among nature lovers. The only exception can be considered the students of the University of Santa Cruz, who chose this unsightly mollusk as their official symbol.​ ​with small sawdust​

​Among invertebrates, many insects feed on slugs. There are especially many of them among ground beetles. ​), among which, however, there are quite a lot of species with a developed shell (​​, olive and red individuals.​

​, in nature eats mushrooms and rotten plants.​

Big black

​.​ ​In colder areas it can live in greenhouses​

​His presence is not difficult to detect​

​At the border, form three stripes, which are sprinkled with slaked lime. Also, some gardeners use mustard or superphosphate instead. They make traps from scraps of boards or rags, soaking them in beer. It turns out that these mollusks also love this product, and it is under such shelters that they most often gather.​ ​However​

​snails in banana skin​

​The large size (up to 150 mm) allows you to get a good look at this handsome guy.​

Ginger

A forest slug can grow up to 15 cm in length during its life. ​It is omnivorous, eating fruits, berries, flowers, and vegetables from the garden. Loves mushrooms.​​and other warm rooms.​

​due to the large number of slimy paths left by it.​​Slugs have appeared in the apartment, how can you get rid of them? Everyone knows that they love dampness and can sometimes be found in the bathroom or kitchen. Salt or mustard powder, which is poured in secluded and damp places, helps. Also, many say that ground coffee works effectively. They cannot tolerate caffeine. A one or two percent solution of a harmless drink will help drive pests out of the area. The main thing for survival is for the slug eggs to overwinter.

Red roadside

​). It is necessary to distinguish between slugs as an ecological group, a life form of gastropods without a distinct shell, and representatives of the slug family ​He always chooses moist, shady gardens and forests for living.​, and sexual maturity occurs already at a length of 3 cm. Young individuals are always colored chestnut, which most often changes.​

​Very prolific species​

​He eats a variety of vegetables, but most of all he loves mushrooms,​ ​This species can be found in almost any part of Europe. Which is not surprising - after all​And since garden slugs are omnivores, most garden and vegetable crops can become spoiled. Of course, it is impossible to describe all known species of terrestrial slugs, since there are quite a lot of them. We

​, and this, as you know, is a completely different matter. Eggs can be stored inside the root plexuses of trees, in earthen burrows, and simply in the depths of a pile of leaves. The egg itself is a much more resilient form of life, and one slug can lay up to hundreds of eggs in one clutch. (I don’t know who thought this and how, but the figure wanders from article to article.) How often a slug can lay eggs is unknown; I have not found reliable information. Our gray slugs seem to do this once a year - in the fall, with a lifespan of 1 to 3 years. But again, these are all separate empirical data.​ ​slug, mother​strong solution of table salt

​Slugs harm potato tubers and foliage, white cabbage and cauliflower, lettuce, various root vegetables (foliage and areas of root crops protruding from the soil), seedlings and young shoots of many vegetables, bean and pea leaves, strawberries, cucumbers and tomatoes, as well as citrus plantations and grapes. They cause less harm to red cabbage, parsley, garlic, onions, leaves of ripening cucumbers and strawberries. They cause especially significant harm to winter wheat and rye, eating both newly sown grains and their seedlings. Oats and barley are less affected by slugs; They practically do not touch spring wheat, flax and buckwheat. Crawling from one plant to another, slugs contribute to the spread of various fungal and viral diseases among agricultural crops - cabbage spot, downy mildew of lima beans, late blight of potatoes. These diseases can cause losses to the farm no less, and often greater, than the direct harmful activities of slugs.​ ​Limacidae​​, wasteland. They often sneak into residential buildings, aiming for bathrooms where mold eats. In nature, it eats woody lichens, especially on eucalyptus trees.​

Brassicas

​The color of adult slugs is very diverse and varies from milky white to blue-black.​​. All adult slugs are hermaphrodites.​

​especially champignons​​naked slug is quite fertile

​collected the most famous​ And we must not forget that​Snails or slugs​

Field

​for spraying plants. For the very delicate skin of slugs, this solution will be destructive.​ ​Sea slug​​, a strict biotaxonomic unit.​

​Has medium dimensions, growing by 80 mm. The body is colored orange, brown or dark red. The mantle is smooth, occupies a third of the body.​ ​Habitat is very extensive and includes the British Isles​ When mating, they mutually fertilize each other and lay eggs in 5-6 days, up to 400 eggs each. Unlike other varieties,

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​for this.​​and common. See photos of slugs with names in the material.​

Smooth

Any summer cottage will provide slugs with enough secluded places where they can comfortably and calmly wait out the coldest winter. ​This is a pregnant snail!​​Another option is to make traps, as shown in the video below.​

​Elysia chlorotica​ ​Structure diagram of a slug​ The body itself is covered with folds and wrinkles

​, all of Northern Europe and the Pacific Northwest.​ ​Egg laying occurs in spring and summer​​The damage is quite serious due to its large size and fairly long life span of 3-4 years.​

Forest

​One of the largest pests of this family. Big slug​They are also called naked slugs.​

​.Perhaps this is why flower growers write hysterically about slugs on their blogs, and not ministers broadcast pathetically and tragically from the screens of zombie boxes.​

​assimilates algae chloroplasts​ ​Deroceras agreste​​.​

​He is unpretentious in food, almost omnivorous.​

Banana

​, young slugs “hatch” within a couple of weeks. They grow in 2 months to the status of a “sexually mature adult.”​ ​The largest black slug in the whole world​​boasts a length of up to 150 mm​

​They have an elongated body​​In articles by distinguished agronomists and honored farmers, further discussions would go on about how and what is the best way to lime a slug. But I will not discuss the issues of mass killing of slugs. I myself am too lazy for energetic military measures, and I consider fussing for every inch of land free from pests on a scale of six to fifteen to thirty acres to be pointless. Besides, I don’t feel the right to deprive other creatures of life just because I wanted to admire some vegetation right here and now, and they prevented it. As long as we are not talking about cultivating the land for our daily bread, there is no point in fighting what nature itself has come up with. As for what chemists and biologists came up with, let them figure it out themselves.​ ​Wedding of slugs.​

​The chance of the Slug King appearing is 1:300 within 24 hours, subject to certain conditions:​​Vaucheria litorea​

​1 - notum, 2 - mantle, 3 - eye tentacles, 4 - tactile tentacles, 5 - pulmonary opening, 6 - leg, 7 - edge of the leg Slugs in the process of mating ​Not afraid of the cold​​Can feed on live and half-rotten plants​

​Despite the relatively short length​, which reaches 300 mm in length. The black slug has a black mantle, decorated at the edges with small light specks.​ ​. The coloring is also quite extraordinary.​

​, which can change shape due to muscle contractions. The body is always moisturized with mucus, which is constantly secreted. Red roadside slug and the hand of a 9-year-old child. Estimate the size of the stretched out slug And this is far from the largest specimen of the snail, but it looks a lot like a bell pepper)))

Redtriangular

​The player is 1/3 of the map width away from the spawn point.​ into the cells of the digestive tract. Chloroplasts are able to photosynthesize in the slug's body for several months, allowing the slug to live off the glucose produced by photosynthesis. The slug genome encodes some of the proteins needed by chloroplasts for photosynthesis.​

The body of land slugs is quite elongated in length, but is capable of changing shape due to muscle contractions. Externally, slugs have bilateral symmetry. It is disrupted only by the unpaired pulmonary foramen located on the right. The skin epithelium secretes a large amount of mucus, which prevents the skin from drying out, promotes better gliding over the surface, and also repels predators.​ ​distributed in Europe, including the Northern part and Siberia in Russia​​, any mushrooms, carrion.​

​(3-4 cm), these slugs cause significant damage to all types of cabbage. They settle on heads of cabbage and begin to gnaw through many passages inside, not content with damaging the outer leaves.​

​The sole is in two colors - gray on the sides and black in the center. The color of the body can differ even within the same family and vary from monochromatic to decorated with a wide variety of patterns. On top of the main background color (gray or brown, sometimes light brown) stripes and spots of different colors are applied from light, almost white to charcoal black .​

Orange or brown

​The coloring is inconspicuous - grayish, yellowish and light brown.​​Did the slugs prevent me from admiring the flower? Well, so be it. I will admire the amazing creatures that managed to take over Europe. It turns out that they are very, very interesting creatures.​ ​slug​

​Height is greater than zero. He can spawn underground if the other conditions are met and there is enough space for him to spawn.​ ​Ruppert E. E., Fox R. S., Barnes R. D.​​Like other gastropods, the body of slugs is divided into three sections:

​. He chooses forest zones for living; deciduous, mixed, and purely coniferous forests are suitable for him.​

​In Ireland, Germany and Great Britain it is listed in the Red Book.​

Reticulate

The body and mantle are colored brown or brown.​The black slug lives in Europe​

​What kind of big slugs there are, look at the photo.​ There is a grater on the tongue​And finally. How long have you seen a hedgehog on your summer cottage? Ah, a long time ago. And no hedgehog will get into your area, because you have a reliable fence, under which even a mouse will not slip. How long has it been since you removed all the moles? Ah, already a decade. And you don’t want to see any more such misfortune in your life. What do you do with a toad you accidentally see? Oh, you're doing the same thing. Dirty and disgusting... What if it's a snake? Oh, this is terrible horror...​

​Beautiful slugs!​​The potential spawn point should have standard green grass.​

​Lower coelomic animals // Zoology of invertebrates. Functional and evolutionary aspects = Invertebrate Zoology: A Functional Evolutionary Approach / trans. from English T. A. Ganf, N. V. Lenzman, E. V. Sabaneeva; edited by A. A. Dobrovolsky and A. I. Granovich. - 7th edition. - M.: Academy, 2008. - T. 2. - 448 p. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-7695-2740-1.​ ​head​​Sometimes found in overgrown parks or in an old cemetery, where there are usually a lot of trees.​

Conclusion

​It is huge in size, slightly short of a black slug.​​with spots of a darker shade. The spots are not clearly defined and are located in random order. The sizes are varied. The horns and head are slightly darker.​ ​, most common in Western and Central. In the Northern regions it can only live in greenhouses.​

​European resident who does not like to move at all​

- many small cloves of hard consistency, arranged in rows.​Continue, dear summer residents, to clean out your plots in accordance with your pathetic illusions, as if you decide who lives here. The red slugs are on their way. Get ready to meet uninvited guests. And get ready to give them everything - vegetables from the garden, fruits from the garden, and even flowers from your favorite flower bed. Slugs love everything. They'll eat it all. Do you think some clever poison will help you? Imagine how much of this poison you and your children will eat and inhale. And think for a second that someone will come after the slugs. After all, someone will come. Necessarily. Are you ready for this meeting?​

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Ground slugs

​Obscenely obese slugs!!!​

​Goblin Scouts spawn under the same conditions as the Slime King, so when they appear, you can be sure that all spawn conditions have been met. You can also use a Battle Potion and/or a Water Candle to increase the chance of them appearing.​ ​Big encyclopedic dictionary “Biology” / ed. M. S. Gilyarov. M.: Great Russian Encyclopedia, 1998.​​,​​Feeds at night, looking for rotten and dead roots, carrion, fallen leaves and any mushrooms. If your cottage or plot is located next to a forest, the slug will definitely move in with you, actively causing damage to lettuce, cabbage and other vegetables.​​The length of its body is about 250 mm​ ​They are found throughout Europe, excluding the northernmost regions.​​Black slug photo.​

​and change your habitat.​ ​At the leading edge there are tentacles with visual organs located on them.​​Photo and text: Lazy Summer Resident, 2014​

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​If players kill 150 slimes during the Slug Rain (kills from lava, traps, etc. do not count), the Slime King will appear. If you defeat him, the event will immediately stop - if all players die, the King will run away and the event will continue for some time. If in a given world the Slug King has already been defeated, then only 75 slugs are required for his appearance, and the probability of Rain appearing is halved.​ Slugs (also called slugs) are ugly pests that appear on cabbage, root vegetables and strawberries (they especially love plants with delicate leaves).​leg​ ​A small mollusk that grows 2-3 cm at most​. A striking distinctive feature is its color.​ ​Feeds mainly on cabbage​​Feeds mainly on mushrooms, will not refuse vegetables.​ ​Most often it settles in greenhouses and wet cellars and spends its entire life in them. Omnivorous and unpretentious, can eat any available vegetables, mushrooms and fruits of fruit trees.​​Sizes are small - 25-30 mm​ Slugs are a group of terrestrial mollusks with a partially or completely reduced shell. Slugs are active only at a certain level of soil moisture - they need water to restore mucus, which is consumed during movement and evaporation. In dry years, slugs reproduce poorly, become lethargic, and feed less. During prolonged drought, they surround themselves with a cocoon and wait out the unfavorable period. In wet years they fatten and feast in our gardens :) and also spread fungal diseases.​ A slug is a gastropod ​The Slime King is usually seen as a "side boss" or "mini-boss". Killing him is generally not necessary to further advance in the game, since it does not open access to new NPCs, biomes or items (although the Sticky Saddle or Slime Grappling Hook may be useful in the beginning).​ However, this is not the worst thing. Slugs very often spoil the presentation of vegetables and fruits by leaving a slimy trail in the place where they just crawled. After this, the appetite immediately disappears.​ ​and​​. The coloring of the body is specific - a pattern in the form of a grid is scattered on a beige background, which is formed from crossed thin stripes of a dark color. The pattern is most pronounced on the back and mantle. The tentacles are usually black.​

​It is most often bright yellow, but some individuals are white or green. Usually the color is monochromatic, sometimes dark specks are scattered on the back.​

​, but if there is a lack of favorite food, he can eat mushrooms, various vegetables and leaves.​

In the absence of favorite food, lichen can be eaten ​The length of the body can grow up to 20 cm. One of the largest representatives of slugs.​​.​

​Many species of mollusks have a shell, but in some, such as naked slugs, it is underdeveloped or completely absent. There are two pairs of tentacles on the slugs' head. At the end of one of them there are eyes. The mouthparts of gastropods consist of an unpaired oral jaw and a muscular tongue, the surface of which is covered with rows of small teeth called grater (radula). Using a jaw and a grater, the clams cut, scrape and grind food. This type of mouth organ is called grinding. The wide lower part of the body with which slugs move is called a leg.​

​This is a relatively new inhabitant of central Russia, appearing in summer cottages near Moscow only in the last few years.​

​The Slime King cannot walk or attack through blocks, which gives him the ability to take cover, unlike other bosses.​

​Usually the so-called naked slug operates in our beds. This is quite a serious opponent, which means that you need to fight him using drastic methods.​

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​Found in Eastern Europe, including Russia and the CIS countries.​

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The eyes are located on the upper horns

A small mollusk that grows 3-4 cm in length. ​. The large size of the body determines the great appetite and enormous damage caused by voracious giants.​ Body wrinkled, mostly round ​This species can feed on a variety of fruits and vegetables, and especially loves tomatoes, strawberries, cabbage and strawberries. Distributed throughout Europe.​ Field slugs usually appear on plants in the evening and at night, and during the day they hide in cracks in the soil and in other shaded, moist places. Slugs are hermaphroditic animals, since each individual has male and female genital organs. To reproduce, slugs mate. Fertilized eggs are laid in small voids in the soil; the number of eggs varies. When meeting each other, each slug tries to bite off the other's manhood. The one who loses it... becomes a woman and a mother.​

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• ​A large, rapidly reproducing, omnivorous slug of colors ranging from orange-red to dark brown is perceived by many older summer residents as a kind of mutant of the usual slugs, and conversations are usually conducted about the deterioration of the environment and the horrors of the chemical industry, and yet this gastropod is a typical example of importation agricultural pest with vegetables and fruits. A foreign invader, so to speak.​​If the Slime King cannot reach his target, he will teleport to the player. Thus, you can’t just lock it in blocks.​
• ​During the day you are unlikely to see these pests, since

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​. The latter, due to the absence of a shell, does not form

​Settles in open areas​

​, and the lower ones, which are shorter, have olfactory receptors.​

The color is dull and unnoticeable ​A clutch may contain about 100 eggs.​​, only in the rear part it is pointed at the end.​

​Harms plants by eating leaves and stems​​http://www.sanpros.ru/depredators/gastropods/ [link blocked by decision of the project administration] A very interesting fact - the record for length belongs to another hermaphrodite animal - the Corsican slug, whose penis at full length is 60 centimeters, which is four times the length of his body. If such proportions were maintained in humans, then the length of a man’s penis would be close to 8 meters!​

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​Red roadside slug (Arion rufus) Or perhaps Lusitanian slug (Arion lusitanicus)​

​In Expert Mode, the Slime King has increased damage and health, and summons Spiked Slugs in addition to the regular ones.​ ​slugs are mainly nocturnal​internal sac​

- garbage dumps, meadows, fields and vegetable gardens. Prefers clay soil. Does not occur in forest areas; does not like lush bushes.​

Measures to combat slugs with improvised means

​The banana slug is native to North America​

​, varies from light gray to light chestnut color.​

• ​It is medium in size, the usual length is about 100 mm, but sometimes grows up to 180 mm.​
• ​The basic color can vary from light gray to chestnut, ash and yellowish slugs are often found.​​, makes holes in fruits and vegetables. Thanks to his activity, the crop begins to rot, loses its marketable and decorative qualities.​ ​in approximately the same way as flies))) - with cancer!​
• ​The popular names of this slug - Spanish snail, Lusitanian slug, red slug and other variations on the theme of color and place - apparently go back to the names​​If the player received a message about the arrival of the Slug King and music plays, but he is nowhere to be found, then most likely , he appeared underground and was locked in the tunnels.​ ​. On sunny days they usually hide under plants or in cracks in the soil.​
• ​, and spread out along the dorsal side of the leg ​Considered the most harmful slug​​, they can be found along the Pacific coast, all the way to Alaska.​
• ​Usually plain on both the body and the mantle.​

​Has a very bright body color

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Black spots and stripes are scattered throughout the body

• ​Active in cloudy and rainy weather, at night and early in the morning. It hides from the sun in damp lowlands, under earthen lumps.​
• ​lick​
• ​two species of lung snails from the genus Arion: Arion rufus and Arion lusitanicus.​

​As with other enemies or bosses, the Slime King disappears if the player is too far away from him (for example, by teleporting).​

Rain of slugs

Slugs prefer to live in a warm and slightly humid place

Notes

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• ​, actively spoiling the harvest. He loves cabbage most of all. It often renders heads of cabbage unfit for consumption, eating through numerous passages inside. Read the material on how to protect vegetables and berries from slugs.​
• Its diet includes mushrooms, lichens and rotten grass, as well as feces of various animals. Depending on the prevailing food,
• ​Body shape is like a spindle​
• - brick, less often yellow, brownish-green or black.
• ​In constantly wet areas​
• ​sexually, like all mollusks.​

• In Russian these are, respectively, the red roadside slug and the Lusitanian slug. The species are similar to each other; it is hardly possible to determine which one you came across among your favorite roses or in a gently cultivated greenhouse. We can definitely exclude the black variation of the slug - Arion ater is an exclusively nocturnal species that is not yet found here, and in Northern Europe it is even listed in the Red Book (although not as an endangered species). In Europe there is also a large roadside slug - but this spotted creature, growing up to 20 cm in average length, does not seem to live here yet either. (Although they write on the Internet that large slugs have taken root well in both Americas...)​
• ​Attempting to summon a second Slime King will not work and the Slime Crown will not be used, so it will remain in the player's inventory.​
• ​. By systematically watering your plants, you create a favorable environment for the birth of new pests.​
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In addition, when there is a lot of rain, it attacks

​the body can change color

- it is wide in the middle and narrowed towards the ends.

​Inhabits Western, Eastern and Central Europe, North America.​

​See the photo below for what a large roadside slug looks like.​

​(groundwater is almost on the surface, river floodplains) increased fertility is observed. One adult is capable of producing a clutch of 300-400 eggs.​

I didn't see it. In my opinion, they are like real men, they try to do this in the dark.​

​Initially, red slugs lived in the south of Portugal and Spain (in the territory of the ancient Roman province of Lusitania, from which one of the species got its name). Apparently, the main food for these gastropods at first was rotting forest litter, but the development of agriculture provided red slugs with much more nourishing and larger “pastures”. Climate warming, as well as an increase in agricultural land, trade relations, globalization and other achievements of human civilization have contributed to the fact that red slugs, traveling throughout Europe, gradually acquired new habitats - preferring to capture vegetable fields, orchards, as well as grain plantings and various there are vineyards there.

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​The Slug King becomes smaller when he loses health.​

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​We can say that slugs are omnivores: they do not disdain slops, ripe strawberries, fallen apples, sown grain, everything is suitable for consumption.​

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​for winter crops​

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​Inhabits throughout Europe. Lives on the edges of forests, in constantly wet lowlands and meadows. Often moves to gardens, cultivated fields and vegetable gardens.​

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​In many countries it is listed in the Red Book​

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​Lives in Europe, which is its homeland, especially in the Central and Northwestern parts.​

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They overwinter in the ground

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​slugs lay eggs that look like large caviar 2=3 mm in diameter in constantly damp places with minimal access to light

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​Until the first quarter or third of the 20th century, red slugs were considered a scourge only of their original habitats, but

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Spanish snail, Lusitanian slug, red slug...

​ - back). On the head there are contractile tentacles (one or two pairs), on which sensory organs are located (developed eyes, organs of tactile and chemical senses). Behind the head on the dorsal side there is a mantle with an unpaired pulmonary opening (​ ​.​

​After fertilization, the clutch contains an average of 70-75 eggs.​

Feeds on young shoots ​.​ ​Its main feature is the method of mating.​

​, the young come out in the spring.​

​When they crawl, they leave behind a strip of mucus with some secretions, then the female slugs crawl along this same strip and fly in!​ ​during the twentieth century, slugs conquered almost all of Europe​​The Slime King behaves like a normal slug, but it can jump higher and further, and it also creates other slugs when it takes damage.​

Welcome, foreign invaders...

The dormant period occurs in winter

​, foliage, fruits and vegetables. My favorite food is strawberries.​ ​In nature, it lives next to humans, settling in fields, gardens, and less often

​Adults attach to trees or other suitable support​

​Small (up to 70 mm in length) and​

​With cuttings, of course!!!​

​, after which they moved east, that is, towards us. It should also be noted that until the 1990s, supplies of agricultural products from Europe to Russia were simply not carried out; European vegetables and fruits came to us only a couple of decades ago. Along with them, obviously, came red slugs, which by that time in Europe had already been recognized as catastrophic pests.​ ​Piercing weapons can not only hurt the Slime King, but also the slugs he creates.​​! Livestock become infected by eating grass through which a slug has crawled. And the chickens get sick by pecking these same slugs from the grass.​

​), leading into the mantle cavity, which functions as a lung. The anal opening is located next to the pneumostomy.​ Horned slugs are kept in apartments​when temperatures become high and the weather becomes dry.​

We'll sweep it up, we'll take it out... We'll live on a bare planet.

​A small mollusk that grows 25 mm in length. The mantle is located on the upper half of the body. The color is always monochromatic, the color can be brown, reddish, black.​

​can be found in wooded areas​

​with the help of thick strands of mucus and hang down. It seems that they are floating in the air.​

​the most frequent visitor to vegetable gardens​

​Slugs do not have a shell, or there is a remnant of it on their back in the form of a plate hidden under a fold of skin.​

​What provoked the rapid growth in the number of slugs and their rapid spread over such a large area? A couple of online publications evasively talk about the absence of natural enemies in slugs, which leads to an uncontrolled increase in their numbers. But there is obvious deceit in this kind of approach -

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​The largest jump of the Slime King can reach 17 blocks in height.​

​Slugs not only cause harm by eating greens in the field, they also eat other equally dangerous pests. However, in the end, the harm from the activities of slugs is much greater than the benefit.​

​Most slugs retain shell rudiments, which are usually internalized. This rudimentary organ serves to store calcium salts and is often found in conjunction with the digestive glands. Internalized shells can be found in members of the families Limacidae and Parmacellidae, while shells are completely absent in adult members of Philomycidae, Onchidiidae and Veronicellidae.​

​as pets.​

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​At this time, slugs find a dark, damp place and hibernate.​

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​Cylindrical shape​

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​, again close to human habitation.​

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​A large representative of the family, which can reach 130 mm in length.​

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​. Absolutely omnivorous, can feed on almost any plant.​

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Traces of damage left by mollusks are very characteristic: on the leaves there are irregularly rounded holes, and on the fruits and tubers there are wide, shallow pits. In this case, they act with the radula, traces of which are visible on the damage. The field slug usually breeds all summer, laying up to 500 eggs in groups of 20-30 eggs in the ground or under moss. Young slugs hatch from the laid eggs after 2-3 weeks, which become sexually mature after 1.5 months. Thus, the reproduction rate of field slugs is high, but at the same time it depends on external conditions - temperature and humidity. Slugs die off when the temperature rises to 30°C and the humidity drops to 10-15%. Therefore, mass reproduction of slugs occurs in cool and damp summers.​

Slugs are quite dangerous pests that can spoil a large number of vegetables, fruits and berries. These mollusks prefer a nocturnal lifestyle, and during the day they hide in dark and cool places. They are quite difficult to detect in sunlight: you will know about their appearance on the site by the characteristic mucus that slugs leave on the ground, leaves and plants.

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Varieties of slugs

In nature, there are a large number of varieties of slugs, many of which harm agricultural, fruit and berry crops. Let's look at the most common varieties of these gastropods.

Vegetable (garden)

Garden slugs are also called garden slugs. Their entire body is always covered with mucus, which serves as protection against drying out. The body of the slug is elongated. It can contract due to the work of muscles.

The colors of garden mollusks come in three types:

• Dirty gray;
• Yellowish;
• Light brown.

REFERENCE: This type of mollusk prefers cloudy and rainy weather and is most active at night.

On the slug's tongue there are rows of hard small teeth called graters. On the front of the body there are tentacles about 30 mm long, on which the visual organs of the slug are located.

Increased fertility of slugs is observed in places with high humidity. One adult can lay 300-400 eggs at a time. In winter, the eggs are in the ground, from which young slugs emerge in the spring.

Garden slugs feed on a variety of vegetables and fruits. They give preference to the following plants:

• Strawberries,
• Tomatoes;
• Cabbage;
• Strawberries.

Slugs leave holes in vegetables and fruits, causing the crop to rot and spoil. The mollusk is also very harmful to plants, eating their leaves and young shoots.

How to get rid of slugs:

Naked

The most common visitor to gardens and vegetable gardens is the naked slug. This species feeds on all plants and fruits. The mollusk is found in almost all European countries.

The naked slug's diet includes more than 160 types of vegetables, fruits and berries.

The body of the mollusk is about 7 cm in length. The body is nondescript in color - gray, brown or dirty white with a yellowish tint.

The presence of a slug is easy to notice by the streaks of mucus it leaves behind as it moves.

Big European

This type of slug is a dangerous pest that destroys various crops. The large European slug reaches a length of 15 cm. The body color of the mollusk is:

• Gray;
• Buraya;
• Light brown.

There are dots and stripes of white or black throughout the slug's body.

The large European slug does not like to change its habitat and rarely moves to different parts of the site.

REFERENCE: The slug settles in greenhouses or damp lowlands, cellars.

Large roadside or leopard

The leopard slug is one of the largest mollusks: its body length can be about 20 cm. The body of a large roadside slug has a round shape. The back of the body is slightly pointed.

The color of the mollusk can be varied: light gray, brown, yellowish and ashen. Black spots and stripes are scattered throughout the slug's body.

The large roadside slug is native to Europe. The largest number of individuals can be found in Northwestern and Central Europe.

Great spotted

The spotted slug is one of the largest representatives of its species. An adult can reach a length of 13 cm. A distinctive feature of the slug is the small dots that cover its mantle. A black stripe also runs across the entire surface of the mantle. The body of the mollusk is oval, rounded at the ends.

The large spotted slug lives in Asia, as well as in southern Europe. The slug loves warmth very much, so in cold areas it settles in greenhouses.

The mollusk feeds on a variety of vegetables, but gives particular preference to mushrooms.

Big black

The mollusk is the world's largest representative of the slug species. The length of an adult reaches 30 cm. The mantle of a black slug is wide, covered with small light spots.

The mollusk lives in Western and Central Europe. It loves warmth, so in the northern regions it lives only in greenhouses.

The black slug feeds mainly on mushrooms, but can also eat vegetables. Due to its large size, the pest is very voracious, and therefore causes enormous damage to the garden. The female lays up to 100 eggs at a time.

Ginger

The size of the red slug varies between 10-18 cm. The color of the slug's body is very bright and varied. It happens:

• Bright orange;
• Brick;
• Yellow;
• Brown-green.

The mollusk lives in North America, as well as in Central, Eastern and Western Europe. It settles next to humans - in gardens, orchards, greenhouses.

Red roadside

The red roadside slug lives in warm European countries. Another name for the mollusk is Spanish or Louisiana slug. Its homeland is Spain and Portugal.

The size of an adult is 9-11 cm, but can reach 20 cm.

The color of the slug is monochromatic, it can be red, yellow or orange. There are long black antennae on the body.

The red slug is omnivorous - it eats vegetables, fruits, berries and mushrooms. The roadside mollusk is very prolific, with up to 400 eggs in one clutch. Mollusks are hermaphrodites, so even one slug that accidentally appears on the site can breed an entire colony.

IMPORTANT: In many countries, the red slug is listed in the Red Book.

The roadside slug lays eggs in the spring and fall. The young appear after 14 days, and after two months they turn into adults.

Cabbage

The cabbage slug causes great harm to cabbage seedlings. The mollusk reaches 3-4 cm in length. The slug settles in cabbage heads and gnaws many holes in them.

The body is brown-brown in color. There are small spots on the mantle. The head and horns of the mollusk are darker in color.

The slug lives throughout Europe. It feeds mainly on cabbage, but can eat other vegetables and mushrooms.

Field

The field slug grows from 3 to 4 cm in length. Body color varies from light brown to light gray. The body is wide in the middle and narrowed towards the ends.

The field slug lives in damp lowlands, meadows and forest edges. It feeds on plant shoots, leaves and wild berries. Very often, the mollusk moves to gardens and vegetable gardens, where it begins to feed on vegetables and berries.

Smooth

The smooth slug reaches 2.5 cm in length. The body can be black, brown or reddish. The body is cylindrical, slightly narrowed at the ends.

The mollusk loves moisture, so it lives near rivers, lakes, swamps and various bodies of water, as well as in wet meadows. In nature, it feeds on berries, mushrooms and rotten plants.

Forest

An adult can reach a length of 18 cm. The forest slug feeds on berries, plants and mushrooms. The mollusk reaches sexual maturity at a length of 3 cm.

The color of the forest slug is varied: it can vary from white to black. Juveniles are brown. With age, their color changes.

The forest slug lives in many European countries, on the Pacific coast and the British Isles.

In some countries, this mollusk is listed in the Red Book.

Banana

The banana clam is very large - it reaches 25 cm in length. The color of the slug is varied - bright yellow, white or green. There may be dark spots on the back of the mollusk. The eyes are located on the upper horns of the slug, and the lower ones are responsible for the sense of smell. The mollusk is native to North America, but it can also be found on the Pacific coast.

The banana slug feeds on mushrooms, rotten grass and lichens. It can also eat feces of various animals.

A mollusk clutch contains up to 75 eggs.

In winter, when the weather is hot and dry, the banana slug hibernates: it finds a damp, dark place and takes refuge there. To protect against drying out, the mollusk is protected by mucus, which is released abundantly during hibernation.

Redtriangular

This species of slug is native to Eastern Australia. The red triangle slug has a distinct purple or red triangle on its mantle. The body color of the mollusk is varied6a. She may be:

• Light pink;
• Milky white;
• Cream;
• Olive;
• Red.

Adult slugs reach 15 cm in length.

Mollusks live in damp forests and shady gardens. In its natural habitat, the red triangle slug feeds on lichens growing on eucalyptus trees.

Orange or brown

A medium-sized slug grows up to 8 cm. The body is brown, dark red or orange and covered with wrinkles. The mollusk is not afraid of the cold, so it lives in all European countries and Russia, including Siberia.

The brown slug lives in forest areas and can live in deciduous and coniferous forests. It feeds on fallen leaves, rotten plants, roots, carrion and mushrooms.

If the site is located next to a forest, the slug can move into the garden and harm cabbage, lettuce, tomatoes and potatoes.

Reticulate

The small slug grows no more than 2-3 cm. It is distinguished by its original coloring - on the beige color there is a pattern of dark stripes in the form of a grid. The mollusk lives in Eastern Europe and can be found in Russia.

The slug lives in meadows, fields, and vegetable gardens. The netted slug is the most dangerous pest because it feeds on almost all vegetables and berries. It causes the greatest harm to cabbage, as it renders the heads of cabbage unusable.

Slugs are not only dangerous pests for gardens. Some exotic mollusks, due to their original appearance, are even pets.

Gray-black slug (lat. Limax cinereoniger) is considered the largest on our planet. The length of its slippery body sometimes reaches 30 cm, which is a record figure for all its relatives. This representative of the order of pulmonary snails is found almost throughout Europe, with the exception of only its northernmost and coldest parts.

The blue-black slug is found in Germany, Great Britain and Ireland, where this species is listed in the Red Book. In addition, it can be seen in the Baltic countries, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and southern Karelia. It also lives throughout the European part of the Russian Federation, and in the Moscow, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Nizhny Novgorod and Kirov regions it is even under state protection.

This is a very rare species of slugs, which is found only in single specimens. It prefers moist wooded areas and parks with good grass cover. During the day he hides in the hollows of trees, under snags, dead wood and stones, and at night he crawls out of hiding to snack on something tasty, from his point of view, of course. He eats green parts of plants very reluctantly: he would like some kind of lichen or a piece of moss, or even better, a larger fungus.

That is why the biggest enemies of gray-black slugs can be considered insidious mushroom pickers who do not leave the poor fellows their favorite delicacy. And then there is deforestation and, as a consequence, a reduction in the number of mosses and lichens, which actually dooms slugs to starvation. Unfortunately, no protective measures are being taken to preserve the number of slugs. And in vain, because these hard workers are one of the most valuable forest biotopes, although they develop a speed of only a couple of centimeters per hour.

And they look so handsome! They have a slender, tapering, mobile body with rough and durable wrinkled skin, which is somewhat reminiscent of the scaly cover of a snake. Despite the name, representatives of the species can have a wide variety of colors - among them there are even white individuals. Juveniles are easily recognized by their brown color, which may remain or change to any other color over time. The mucus of individuals of any age is transparent or light yellow.

The bluish-black slug's mantle is one-color, its length covers two-fifths of the body. It is all dotted with concentric wrinkles, and its anterior edge does not grow to the back. There are black dots on the tentacles. The breathing hole is located at the back of the right half of the mantle.

In the first year after birth, gray-black slugs grow quickly, but do not leave offspring. In the second year, they lay eggs diligently in early and mid-summer, the entire process taking about two months. Like all lung snails, they are hermaphrodites, but they still prefer to find a partner for mating.

To do this, a snail ready for reproduction follows the trail of an individual of its species, which signals its readiness with the help of a special secretion secreted into the mucus. It is interesting that before the action itself there is usually a love game, during which the partners excite and encourage each other. Tears do not have a larval stage and a ready-made individual emerges from the laid egg, which differs from the adult only in its size. Her life expectancy will be about three years.