This cover, combined with wet soil and warming spring temperatures, contributes to the slug issue. “Some of the spring conditions that might encourage slugs and give them a head start would be good ...

Slugs. They eat your lettuces, chew your cabbages, defoliate your dahlias and assassinate your asters. Even the name "slug" is unpleasant. It comes from the Middle English "slugge", from a Norwegian ...

New study finds Phyllaplysia taylori is an outsize climate-resilient ally for coastal ecosystems As climate change accelerates, finding effective solutions that deliver outsized impact becomes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three new sightings of the invasive black velvet leatherleaf slug have been reported on the Coast in April and May, bringing the ...

An unusually wet, cool summer has made Southcentral Alaska a particularly hospitable place for an invasive slug species that appears to have made a home in Anchorage’s Hillside. Scientists are asking ...

A rapid-fire list of slug facts has the potential to make your head spin. They have blue blood, are right-handed, can reproduce with themselves, and will eat each other when other food options are ...

As climate change accelerates, finding effective solutions that deliver outsized impact becomes increasingly crucial. Now, new research from Chapman University shows that a tiny marine mollusk native ...