Local importance slug pests include: Deroceras spp., Milax spp., Tandonia sp., Limax spp., Arion spp.

The red slug, also known as the chocolate arion or the European red slug, Arion rufus, is a large land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs.

* The red slug is said by some to be the same species as the black slug, Arion ater.

* The Spanish slug, Arion vulgaris, is known to interbreed with the black slug and perhaps the red slug.

The area is also home to the Banana slug ( Ariolimax columbianus ), which has recently been threatened by the encroachment of a new species of slug, the Black slug ( Arion ater ), an invasive species from Northern Europe.

Although details of their physiology were not mentioned on screen, the space slug, ( a giant worm-like creature that lived on asteroids in the vacuum of space ), and the Mynock, ( pesky bat-like vermin that would attach to spaceship hulls and chew through power conduits to feed off the raw energy ), are said to be silicon-based organisms in Star Wars Expanded Universe sources.

Outside the SI system, a variety of different mass units are used, depending on context, such as the slug ( sl ), the pound ( lb ), the Planck mass ( m < sub > P </ sub >), and the solar mass.

More modern EFP warhead versions, through the use of advanced initiation modes, can also produce long-rods ( stretched slugs ), multi-slugs and finned rod / slug projectiles.

The fuel grain is typically a mixture of pressed fine powder ( into a solid, hard slug ), with a burn rate that is highly dependent upon exact composition and operating conditions.

The park protects a wide range of biomes, including semi-arid woodland, subalpine heath, and eucalypt forests, and provides a habitat for a range of animals, including bats, birds, wallabies, quolls, and the unique red triangle slug ( Triboniophorus graeffei ), which is known to appear after rainfall.

* There is also evidence for horizontal transfer of mitochondrial genes to parasites of the Rafflesiaceae plant family from their hosts ( also plants ), from chloroplasts of a not-yet-identified plant to the mitochondria of the bean Phaseolus, and from a heterokont alga to its predator, the sea slug Elysia chlorotica.

In Larry Niven's " Known Space " mythos ( 1965 to present ), there is a heavy-gravity species somewhat resembling a giant slug which upon their discovery were immediately given the genus and species " Frumious bandersnatch ".

Heston writes how the others sat stunned, witnesses to a " marital massacre " and, though he was " strongly tempted to slug him " ( Hill ), Heston left with his wife Lydia after she stood up, almost in tears.

Using an old U. S. Navy 16 inch ( 406 mm ) 50 caliber gun ( 20 m ), later extended to 100 caliber ( 40 m ), the team was able to fire a 180 kilogram slug at 3, 600 meters per second ( 13, 000 km / h 8, 000 mph ), reaching an altitude of 180 kilometers ( 591, 000 ft ).

Boletus edulis is a food source for animals such as the banana slug ( Ariolimax columbianus ), the Long-haired Grass Mouse, the Red Squirrel, and, as noted in one isolated report, the Fox Sparrow.

The short, fat, unaerodynamic Foster slug was no longer needed for its inherent stability ; new slugs were smaller in diameter, usually 12. 7 millimeter (. 50 caliber ) ( compared to the 18. 5 millimeter (. 73 inch ) bore diameter of a 12 gauge ), and carried in a plastic sabot.

* In Ukrainian, it is commonly called et (" at "), other names being ravlyk ( равлик ) ( snail ), slymachok ( слимачок ) ( little slug ), vukho ( вухо ) ( ear ) and pesyk ( песик ) ( little dog ).

However, Blackadder often gets some sort of revenge, for example feeding Darling, along with Melchett, with one of Baldrick's banquets ( each dish consisting of unsavory ingredients ), getting him to eat Baldrick's " Charlie Chaplin " moustache ( in reality a dead slug ) by telling him it's liquorice, watching as Lord Flashheart headbutts him out cold, interrogating him until he bursts into tears and protests that he's not a German spy, or serving Darling some of Baldrick's " coffee "— made from mud, using dandruff as sugar and saliva as cream ( Blackadder did not take up Baldrick's offer of ' chocolate sprinkles ').

Magellan has his own pets like Cooey and the slurms ( a portmanteau of slug and worm ), who were animated with Clay animation.

In 1862 100 guests at Willis ' Rooms sampled Japanese Sea slug (= sea cucumber, probably ), kangaroo, guan, curassow and Honduras turkey.

The machine would then separate the mold disk ( carrying the freshly cast slug ), the metal pot, and the first elevator.

* Akimitsu Takagi's detective novel The Tattoo Murder Case uses the character representations in tattoos worn by three of the main characters: Kinue Nomura ( Orochimaru, the snake ), her brother Tsunetaro ( Jiraiya, the frog ) and sister Tamae ( Tsunade, the slug ; translated as Tsunade-hime ), all set within a series of murders that takes all three's lives.

She lives in a house on a suspended platform ( similar to The Jetsons ), with her malfunctioning robotic maid Tetsuko and her drunken pet slug Hanage ( nosehair ).

A shotgun ( also known as a scattergun and peppergun, or historically as a fowling piece ) is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot, or a solid projectile called a slug.

The shot is usually fired from a smoothbore barrel ; another configuration is the rifled slug barrel, which fires more accurate solitary projectiles.

Mary caught a disease which killed her slug.

: In a popular publication quoted below occurs the following notice of a well-known land mollusk, in connection with a traditionary story of the plague, which has long had general currency in Scotland: ‘ In the woodlands, the more formidable black nude slug, the Anon or Limax den, will also be often encountered.

In the town of Dundee there exists a strange traditionary story of the plague, connected with the conversion, from dire necessity of the Arionaten, or black slug, to a use similar to that which the luxurious Romans are said to have made of the great apple-snail.

The top of the character would overhang the slug, forming a kern which was less fragile than the normal kerns of foundry type, as it was on a slab of cast metal.

Slugs are stabilized in flight by rifling in the barrel, which causes the slug to spin, or are stabilized as a dart is by the weight center of balance being forward of the aerodynamic center of balance, sometimes with assistance from fins.

Instead of two cavities, there is only one, in which the three dies reside, bonded to the package instead of a heat slug.

As it emerges from the mold disk, the slug passes a set of knife edges in the knife block, which trims off any small irregularities in the casting and produces a slug of exactly the desired width and height.

From there, the slug drops into the galley tray which holds the lines in the order in which they were cast.

( The largest slug species is Limax cinereoniger of Europe, which can reach in length.

A yearly festival and contest is held at Russian River ( California ) including slug races and a contest for recipes-though, even when fed corn meal to purge them or soaked in vinegar to remove slime, the slugs ' flavor is not always well regarded, and the most successful entries are often those in which the flavor is unnoticeable.

Under the social cycle, amoebae aggregate to cAMP by the thousands, and form a motile slug, which moves towards light.

Ultimately the slug forms a fruiting body in which about 20 % of the cells die to lift the remaining cells up to a better place for sporulation and dispersal.

Folfanga is a star system, the fourth planet of which is inhabited by a species of small slug, of the genus A-Rth-Urp-Hil-Ipdenu.

The aliens take over the school by injecting a slug into the ear, which seems to replace the person with an alien consciousness-one that spreads the parasites as much as it can.

: Mentioned above ; the base is a container, into which you can insert hot coals or a metal brick or slug to keep the iron heated.

Punch buggy ( also called punch bug, punch dub, piggy punch, slug bug, or beetle bug ) is a car game generally played by children in which participants punch each other in the arm upon first sight of a Volkswagen Beetle while calling out " Slug bug!

Red Meat features " slug lines " at the top of each comic which are frequently alliterative.

However the phrase " sea slug " is also applied to various other groups within the Opisthobranchia including the sea hares, the sacoglossans, various families of bubble snails ( Cephalaspidea ) and others, some of which have reduced shells, and many of which are shell-less.