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What are Slugs? The simplest description is that slugs are snails without shells. Some of these mollusks do, in fact, have a shell, but those that do have internalized the shell and use it to store minerals. Like snails, slugs secrete a film of mucus to protect their delicate skin and to “grease” the surface on which they are traveling. Slugs are considered a major agricultural pest, and, according to some sources, a single acre of farmland can support nearly a quarter of a million slugs! That means even a small garden is likely to house thousands of them. What Do Slugs Look Like? Slugs look like an exceptionally fat worm with two snail-like eyestalks. Naturally, the eyestalks allow for vision, but they also contain olfactory organs as well. Slugs also have two small tentacles under their eyestalks that are used as feelers and taste buds. Hidden under a slug’s tentacles is the mouth, which opens to release a radula. The radula is a tongue-like organ that has teeth-like protrusions that help it saw through food before ingestion. In North America, slugs can measure up to 10 inches long. Most slugs are light brown or gray in color, although the famed banana slug of the Pacific Northwest is often a bright yellow. The skin of a slug is exceptionally moist, and often covered in a thin layer of slimy mucus that helps it retain moisture and protects it from most predators, which dislike the taste. What Attracts Slugs? Two key things attract slugs: food and moisture. Unfortunately ...

: any of numerous chiefly terrestrial pulmonate gastropods (order Stylommatophora) that are found in most parts of the world where there is a reasonable supply of moisture and are closely related to the land snails but are long and wormlike and have only a rudimentary shell often buried in the mantle or entirely absent