The trail of slime can often imperil or slow down attackers such as Pacific giant salamanders and northwestern garter snakes—common banana slug predators. When ingested, the slime can make ...

Slugs do not have language in any conventional sense, but they are perfectly capable of 'communicating' the whereabouts of food, for instance, by laying and following slime trails. One reason ...

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species ...

Slugs are one of gardeners' least favourite ... meaning the only clue to their presence is a silvery slime trail. There are several reasons why they might be showing up in your garden, like ...