In defense of slugs

PHYSorg
Sep 4, 2024, 1:30 pm118 pts
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 word for a heavy, slow-moving or sluggish person. Slugs clearly have an PR problem, so let's try and put things…

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In defense of slugs

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