61. Northeast Florida Slug Page There are only three species of slugs native to northeast Florida. Of the three, Philomyus carolinianus (Bosc, 1802), is by far the rarest usually http://www.jaxshells.org/807b.htm

There are only three species of slugs native to northeast Florida. Of the three, Philomyus carolinianus (Bosc, 1802), is by far the rarest - usually restricted to wooded areas, where it associates with rotting logs . The other two species are relatively common and survive quite nicely in the lawns and gardens of urban populated areas. [click on the images to go to the respective species pages] Deroceras laeve (Müller, 1774) Leidyula floridana (Leidy, 1851) Meadow Slug Florida Leatherleaf Leidyula floridana (Leidy, 1851) Philomycus carolinianus (Bosc, 1802) Climbs a tree in search of food Carolina Mantleslug Invasive Species Angustipes ameghini (Gambetta, 1923) B lack-velvet Leatherleaf

62. Recipe For Boiled Sea-Slugs This is a transcript of the George Hunt translation of the seaslug recipe, as narrated in the Kwakuitl Language, by his wife Elie Hunt, circa 1913. http://www.hallman.org/indian/slug.html

Boiled Sea-Slugs. (Catching sea-slugs). When a man wants to take sea-slugs, he first goes for a thin shaft which is used by the salmon fishers. He takes two thin cedar sticks, each one a short span long and a little thinner than the little finger, flat on one side and he takes cedar-bark and splits it in narrow strips. The two cedar-sticks are to be hooks at the end of the sea-slug spear. He puts these near the end of the harpoon-shaft, and ties them on with split long strips of cedar-bark. When it is finished, it is this way: [A simple illustration is omitted, of spear with hook lashed on end]. Then he waits for it to be calm at low tide. When it is calm, he launches his sea-slug-gathering canoe. He takes his sea-slug-gathering paddle, and his knife for cutting off the heads of sea slugs, and also the stick for catching sea-slugs. Then he paddles to a place where he knows there are many sea-slugs. He looks down into the water; and when he sees a place where there are many of them together, he takes his stick for catching sea-slugs and pushes it down into the water. He pushes the hook-end under the sea-slugs. Then it comes up lying crosswise over his canoe. He takes the sea-slug, takes his knife, and cuts off the neck. Then he squeezes out the insides, and he throws it down hard into his canoe, saying as he is throwing it down

63. Slugs And Snails Of Western Washington Shell lacking, or if present then too small to accommodate the withdrawn body of the animal; these are the slugs and semislugs. 370 http://www.evergreen.edu/ants/TESCBiota/mollusc/key/webkey.htm

Identification Guide to Land Snails and Slugs of Western Washington by Timothy A. Pearce, Casey H. Richart, William P. Leonard, and Paul A. Hohenlohe Start Key Systematic List of Species Acknowledgements References Glossary Methods Diagrams 10a. Shell well developed, coiled, large enough to accommodate the withdrawn body of the animal; these are the shelled snails. 10b. Shell lacking, or if present then too small to accommodate the withdrawn body of the animal; these are the slugs and semi-slugs. a. Shell wider than high (or about as wide as high); size variable. 20b. Shell height greater than 1.5 times shell diameter; shell height less than 15 mm. a. Full-grown shell greater than or equal to 4mm diameter; umbilicus usually open; all shells 4 to 8 mm diameter have an open umbilicus and at least 5.5 whorls. 30b. Full-grown shell less than 4 mm in diameter (snails in this choice are full-grown at 3 to 6.5 whorls); umbilicus closed or open; shells 2.5 to 4 mm diameter have a closed umbilicus and at least 4 whorls. a. Shell lip in full-grown shells broadly reflected; last whorl descends. Polygyridae.

64. Pharyngula::They're Blue, And Long, And Prehensile, And Beautiful! This video from the BBC of slugs mating is spectacular—it s got mucus ropes, everting male organs, entwining penises, and penises forming a translucent http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/theyre_blue_and_long_and_prehensile_

@import "http://pharyngula.org/index?css=weblog/weblog_css"; Pharyngula has moved to http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ Wednesday, November 23, 2005 They're blue, and long, and prehensile, and beautiful! info 01:11 PM Trackbacks Technorati links Format for printing Pirate mode Tag: Science Tag: Organisms PZ Myers Comments ... last page Oh, my. This video from the BBC of slugs mating (Thanks to Ian Townsend, and I hope he isn't embarrassed that he's been identified as a mollusc porn provider.) Trackback url: http://pharyngula.org/index/trackback/3428/rtjjV8YB/ Comments: Jeff I would really appreciate learning more about what makes up the slime that envelops slugs, or even more about slugs in general. I have handled more than my share of the lovely little beasties, (I have a water turtle that is possessed with a penchant for slug souffl©,) and the residual slime left on my fingers is tougher to scrub off than super glue. There's a similar depiction (in much better resolution, detail, and color) in the film "Microcosmos" that is just absolutely stunning. It's actually erotic in a really odd sort of way. And slugs creep me out a bit, so that's saying something.

65. The Secret Lives Of Sea Slugs May 3, 2006 It turns out that the sea slug isn t really that sluggish after all. So says the first broad field study of this charismatic orange http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060503200157.htm

Science News Share Blog Cite Print Email Bookmark The Secret Lives Of Sea Slugs ScienceDaily (May 3, 2006) See also: Behavior Social Psychology Child Development Behavioral Science ... Fish migration The new research is significant because the sea slug known as Tritonia diomedea, a nudibranch mollusc species found in the shallow northeast Pacific, is important in laboratory studies of the how the brain controls behavior, a field known as neuroethology. Biologists Russell Wyeth and Dennis Willows, of University of Washington's Friday Harbor Laboratories, launched the study to help provide missing information on this important research animal. "Tritonia is one of the testing grounds for a lot of ideas for how nervous systems work," says Wyeth. "Field work with this organism is helpful because it gives you a good idea of how to set things up in the lab." Observations of the slug's natural behaviors and the sensory cues that trigger them also add exciting new context for scientists studying them under experimental conditions and provide information that cannot be obtained in laboratories. The study sheds light on the sea slug's navigation, feeding, mating, and egg-laying behavior, and confirms that many of this creature's behaviors in the wild are similar to published descriptions of laboratory behavior. The navigational observations are among the study's most exciting findings, not only because they are new to science, but also because they suggest that sea slugs don't just inch randomly around the sea.

66. Cage Fighting Slugs Its Way On To Prime-time TV | Sports | Reuters Cage fighting slugs its way on to primetime TV. Fri Feb 29, 2008 244pm EST. Email Print . Share. Reprints Single Page. - Text + http://www.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idUSN2862019420080229?feedType=RSS&fee

67. Slugs Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes slugs movie reviews, trailers Check out Rotten Tomatoes slugs clips, pictures, critic and user reviews, forums and the Tomatometer! http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/slugs/

IGN.com AskMen.com Rotten Tomatoes GameSpy ... GameStats document.write(""); document.write(""); Home Movies DVD Celebrities ... Showtimes document.write(""); document.write(""); Log In What is RT? document.write(""); document.write(""); RT Web MOVIES ON DVD SLUGS Rate This Movie Write a Review Share This Movie Add to List Buy DVD ... Buy Poster Slugs (1987) N/A Reviews Counted: 4 Fresh: Rotten:4 Average Rating: N/A Runtime: 90 mins Synopsis: Small town health inspector Mike Brady (not the guy from THE BRADY BUNCH) discovers long-buried toxic waste is having an interesting, albeit unfortunate, effect on common garden slugs the squirmy little slimies have developed a craving for human flesh. And they've invaded the water... [More] Small town health inspector Mike Brady (not the guy from THE BRADY BUNCH) discovers long-buried toxic waste is having an interesting, albeit unfortunate, effect on common garden slugs the squirmy little slimies have developed a craving for human flesh. And they've invaded the water supply! Soon, hapless townsfolk begin to fall prey to the carnivorous creepy-crawlies. Will Mike stop the rampage before the entire community becomes a section on the dinner menu? Will someone think of pouring salt on the little pests to end their culinary hijinks? This gore-strewn homage to late-fifties horror flicks has the answers to those questions and more. From the director of the equally bloody chainsaw opus, PIECES. [Less] Genre: Horror/Suspense Starring: Michael Garfield Kim Terry Philip Machale Alicia Moro ... Santiago Alverez Director:

68. Snails, Slugs, And Nudibranchs - Gastropoda Gastropods (Class Gastropoda) include a wide variety of organisms such as terrestrial snails and slugs, sea slugs, sea hares, sea butterflies, canoe shells, http://animals.about.com/od/mollusks/p/gastropods.htm

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69. Spikers Stomp Slugs - The Stanford Daily Online The Cardinal tallied 51 kills to the Banana slugs’ 30. Furthermore, the Cardinal attack percentage did not dip below .300 in any one of the three games the http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2008/3/3/spikersStompSlugs

Sports Monday March 3, 2008 Last update: 01:46 AM PDT Navigation Home Other Issues Archives This Issue Front page News Sports Opinions ... Classifieds Buy Classifieds Subscriptions New building! ... Advertising SMS RSS feeds Share Tools Email Print + Share Facebook Digg del.icio.us Reddit Newsvine Element.hide('sharesites'); Spikers stomp Slugs March 3, 2008 By Christina Nguyen The No. 9 Stanford men’s volleyball team added another win to its current four-game streak last Friday, bringing down Division-III’s No. 2 ranked team, UC-Santa Cruz, in three games: 30-21, 30-16, 30-21. Santa Cruz is home to some of the smaller and older gyms among west coast schools, with hard floors and poor lighting, wheeled-in bleachers and fans sitting on the floor and standing against the walls, but the Cardinal did not let that affect its play. “When you play in a small gym, even a small crowd seems like a big crowd,” said freshman Garrett Dobbs. “It did get loud, there was definitely a lot of energy, a lot of heckling. But our players did a good job of keeping cool-headed, staying consistent with playing.” Freshman outside hitter Spencer McLachlin led the team with 12 kills at an impressive .478 overall attack percentage. Junior middle blocker Brandon Williams wasn’t far behind with nine kills at a stellar .818 attack percentage, while senior outside hitter Matt Ceran and sophomore opposite Evan Romero added nine and seven kills, respectively.

70. SLUGS Plugin For HTML Kit This quick and easy to use utility can suggest colors which are likely to look nice with your selection. It offers many other features including favorites http://207.36.181.118/html-kit/plugins/info/cmslugs/

HTML Kit site requirements Translations On this page: Download Help Feedback SLUGS Home Plugins Tools HTML ... Ciaran McCreesh Version: Date Updated: 09-Feb-2002 Author: Ciaran McCreesh SLUGS (Simple Little Utility for Generating Schemes) is a simple yet unique colour picker which can provide suggestions for colours which look nice together. Related Tags HTML tags: body, font. HTML attributes: alink, bgcolor, color, link, text, vlink. CSS properties: background-color, border-color, color. To install, enter cmslugs in the Updates tab. Requirements: HTML-Kit Build 292 or 290 Download Size: 254.02 KB HTML-Kit Plugin Support Forum SLUGS Documentation Visit the Author's Website Printable Booklets ... Plugin Information (9.04 KB) Send/Read Feedback Wish List Plugins and other files by this author (20 more), including: How do I install SLUGS? If any additional prompts appear, follow them to complete the installation. How do I run it? Tools Which programming language was used to write it? SLUGS was written in Delphi. More plugins written in Delphi can be found on the Plugins page Whats' the quickest way to uninstall SLUGS?

71. Shotgun Slugs The first shotgun slugs were probably round, lead pumpkin balls. These were common projectiles for muskets and shotgunsany sort of smooth bore long http://www.chuckhawks.com/shotgun_slugs.htm

Shotgun Slugs By Chuck Hawks The first shotgun "slugs" were probably round, lead "pumpkin balls." These were common projectiles for muskets and shotgunsany sort of smooth bore long armfor a long time. Unfortunately, the accuracy of a lead ball fired from a smooth bore barrel is pretty sad. Hitting the target is problematical and precise bullet placement is nearly impossible except at very close range. Also, a lead ball has a very poor sectional density (SD), and consequently poor penetration. There had to be a better way. The answer, of course, was the rifled barrel. Imparting spin to a projectile to stabilize its flight was a quantum improvement in accuracy. Rifled barrels also made possible the conical bullet, and later the familiar spitzer (pointed) bullets used by most hunters today. But demand remained for some sort of solid projectile that could be fired from a smoothbore gun and used on medium game like deer. Some one-gun families did not own, and could not afford to buy, a rifle. What was needed was an improvement on the lead ball, both in terms of accuracy and penetration. Foster type rifled slugs The eventual solution to this problem was the Foster "rifled" slug. This is a short, blunt lead bullet that is solid in front and hollow in the rear, analogous to a badminton bird. And, like a shuttlecock, it is its weight forward balance that allows the Foster slug to fly through the air to its target with reasonable accuracy. Compared to lead balls, this was a big improvement in both accuracy and SD.

72. SNAIL'S TALES: Slugs 'n Isopods Many slug species tend to aggregate when they are resting. That behavior is called huddling. Here is a note I had in issue No. 15 of Tentacle that was about http://snailstales.blogspot.com/2007/03/slugs-n-isopods.html

SNAIL'S TALES snails, slugs, natural history, evolution and everything else 23 March 2007 Slugs 'n isopods Many slug species tend to aggregate when they are resting. That behavior is called huddling. Here is a note I had in issue No. 15 of Tentacle that was about a specimen of the native U.S. slug Philomycus carolinianus that was huddling with an introduced Arion subfuscus I have many rocks in my backyard and almost every large rock has one or more resident slugs underneath it. Even more numerous in the same places are isopods, which appear to be more sensitive to dehydration than are slugs. On many occasions I have seen isopods clustered around resting slugs. This morning I was able to photograph 2 such clusters under one rock. The smaller slug was probably a juvenile Limax maximus , while the larger one in the picture below is probably an Arion subfuscus If we define huddling loosely as the clustering of animals for mutual protection against environmental extremes, then what we have here would be an example of interphylar huddling. However, the isopods are probably benefiting much more from huddling against a slug than is the slug from having isopods lined up against its body.

73. Slugs -- Baits | Yard And Garden Solutions slugs are attracted to the yeast smell and drown. However, slug populations may be too large for this method to be effective. http://www.solutions.uiuc.edu/content.cfm?item=411&series=4

74. Improbable Research » Blog Archive » Snails, Slugs, And Speed This sets up a potential data transport contest/showdown between snails and slugs (see below for the slug part of it). The snail report says http://improbable.com/2008/01/25/snails-slugs-and-speed/

Improbable Research Research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK go Subscribe Home Ig Nobel Prizes Info The winners Video of the 2007 Ig Subscribe Publications Magazine (Annals of Improbable Research) Newsletter (mini-AIR) Newspaper column Classics Improbable Research Shows Complete Schedule UK Tour Host a Show? Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists ... Snails, slugs, and speed Snails carry mail faster than postmen, says a January 25, 2008 Reuters report . This sets up a potential data transport contest/showdown between snails and slugs (see below for the slug part of it). The snail report says: An IT worker, after receiving a letter on January 3 that was sent on December 20 as priority mail, calculated that a snail would have made it even faster to his home than the letter. Daily Gazeta Wyborcza said Michal Szybalski calculated that it took 294 hours for the letter to arrive at his home. He also said the distance between his home and the sender was 11.1 kilometres. Given the distance and the time, the speed of the letter was 0.03775 kilometres per hour. Szybalski calculated that a garden snail travels at around 0.048 kilometres per hour. The slug speed record was published in the July/August 2005 issue of the Annals of Improbable Research, in a research report called

75. Sea Slugs Madness In addition to that, The Sea Slug Forum Marine Flatworms of the World! have been my major sources of information regarding these wonderful creatures. http://seaslugs.wordpress.com/

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76. Slug - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Slug is a common nonscientific word which is most often applied to any gastropod mollusk whatsoever that has a very reduced shell, a small internal shell, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug

Slug From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search This article is about land slugs. For sea slugs, see Nudibranch For other uses, see Slug (disambiguation) Land slugs various species of land slugs Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Orthogastropoda Superorder: Heterobranchia Order: Pulmonata Suborder: Eupulmonata Infraorder: Stylommatophora Subinfraorders, superfamilies, and families See text Slug is a common non-scientific word which is most often applied to any gastropod mollusk whatsoever that has a very reduced shell, a small internal shell, or no shell at all. A slug-like body is an adaptation which has occurred many times in various groups of snails The common name "slug" is most often applied to land species, but the word has also been applied to many marine species. The largest group of marine shell-less gastropods or sea slugs are the nudibranchs , but there are in addition many other groups of sea slug such as the heterobranch sea butterflies sea angels , and sea hares , as well as the only very distantly related, pelagic, caenogastropod sea slugs, which are within the superfamily Carinarioidea Evolutionarily speaking, the loss or reduction of the shell in gastropods is a derived characteristic; the same basic body design has independently evolved several times, making slugs a strikingly

77. UC Santa Cruz - Campus Mascot The Banana Slug, a bright yellow, slimy, shellless mollusk found in the campus s redwood forest, was the unofficial mascot for UC Santa Cruz s coed teams http://www.ucsc.edu/about/campus_mascot.asp

About UCSC Academic Programs Research News/Events ... Find People Contact Us Address / Phone Directions Maps Transportation View the Campus Photo Gallery Virtual Tour Visit the Campus Local Lodging, Dining Tours of Campus Eating on Campus Planning for the Future Long Range Development Plan Planning through 2020 Construction Plans Profile History and Overview Colleges Principles of Community Contributions to Community ... Mascot Facts (PDF) Statistics Distinctions Research Impacts (PDF) Economic Impact Crime Awareness Report About This Site Selected Administrative Units Chancellor's Office Public Information Office Maintained by pioweb@ucsc.edu Campus Mascot How the Banana Slug became UCSC's official mascot The Banana Slug, a bright yellow, slimy, shell-less mollusk found in the campus's redwood forest, was the unofficial mascot for UC Santa Cruz's coed teams since the university's early years. The students' adoption of such a lowly creature for a team mascot was their reaction to the fierce athletic competition fostered at most American universities. UCSC has always offered a wide-ranging physical education and recreation program designed to appeal to the greatest number of students, but it has based its approach on some unusual ideas: that athletics are for all students, not just team members of major sports; that the most important goal of a collegiate physical education department should be to introduce as many students as possible to lifelong physical activities; and that the joy of participating is more important than winning.

78. Banana Slug Information on this very large slug from moist forest floors along the Pacific Coast of North America. http://www.naturepark.com/bslug.htm

Banana Slug Ariolimax columbianus Here's a photo peek of this native shell-less mollusk! Banana Slug are Mollusks, which means they are soft-bodied with no visible skeleton. They also belong to the class Gastropoda, which can be recognized by having a muscular foot, a mantle with a cavity, a meaty hump on their back, and a radula (or sand-paper-like grinding mouth parts). They are Pulmonates, which means they have a small lung inside their bodies which opens to the outside with a pneumostone Banana Slugs are the second largest slug in the world, growing up to 25 cm long. They are so named because very often their coloring resembles a banana, bright yellow body with black spots. Solid greenish, pale brown and even almost white specimens can be found locally too. They can change their color slightly over time, becoming more intense or paler as the light, moisture and food allows. These colors help them to camouflage with the leaves on the forest floor. They may be confused with an introduced species, the Black Garden Slug, as it is large and also comes in a brownish color. If you look closely at the Garden Slug, you can usually see an orange-striped edging around the foot and textured furrows on all upper parts of the body except the mantle. The Banana Slug does not have any orange on its body and its body is smooth. The Banana Slug lives in moist forest floors along the Pacific Coast of North America from California to Alaska. It is a decomposer, which means it chews up leaves, and animal droppings and other dead plant material and recycles it into soil. One of their favorite foods seems to be mushrooms. In the process of eating, they also spread seeds and spores.

79. UC Santa Cruz Ultimate Frisbee Slug Ultimate Home search. What is Ultimate? High School Recruits Slug Ultimate History Alumni Sean Ryan Award http://www2.ucsc.edu/ultimate/

UC Santa Cruz Ultimate Frisbee home practice tournaments roster ... results Slug Ultimate Home 2007-08 Season Wanna play? Come on out... no experience needed Over the course of the Fall you'll learn how to throw, cut, catch and anything else we can teach you about this great sport Thursdays 3-6pm East Fields Saturday 1-4pm East Fields Who plays Ultimate at UCSC? Former college varsity athletes, former high school varsity athletes, people looking for a new team sport. If that describes you and you're looking for something new, come check out Ultimate at UC Santa Cruz. We're always looking for new players. Visitors since 4/5/99 Ticket Jones is a proud sponsor of UC Santa Cruz Ultimate Frisbee. We handlea variety of sporting event tickets including the Final Four NHL Hockey , and the Superbowl . Our packages such as theatre performances and popular concerts can be ordered world-wide. Domestic events center around football games college football and NFL), US Open Tennis , and college bowl games.Internationally we focus on

80. Slugweb: Online Storefront Slugweb Online storefront for one of the nation s favorite and bestloved mascots the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slug. Featuring slug tee-shirts, slug hats, http://www.slugweb.com/slugweb/AboutHistory.phtml

Home About Oxford West Slug Club Slug History The Story of the Web's Favorite Mascot. For many years, the banana slug (ariolomax dolichophalus to the world of science) served as the unofficial mascot for the University of California at Santa Cruz campus. It represented many of the strongest elements of the campus: contemplation, flexibility, non-agressiveness and, perhaps above all, an iconoclastistic challenge toward the status quo. Besides, the Banana Slug is indigenious to the region and shares a symbiotic relationship with the California Redwood that populates the scenic campus. In 1986 students demanded that the Slug be blessed with official mascot status. Five years previous to this, the Chancellor at the time had named the Sea Lion to this distinguished post this in an effort to make the campus more mainstream. Well, students would have none of that. They demanded to be associated with the mollusk. They produced t-shirts bearing the Fiat Slug logo (still produced today by Oxford West) and the newly established Student Union Assembly prepared for a vote to see which mascot students prefered. The Chancellor, in his infinite wisdom, refused to have campus money spent on the student referendum; in his mind, the issue was moot. There would be no official Santa Cruz Banana Slugs.

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