Battery-operated, it is designed to repel slugs and snails, without harming them, by sending a low electrical current through a conductive tape. |
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The medicos said there had been numerous cases of meningitis since 1971 caused by people eating garden snails or slugs. |
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By this convention, birds are considered Reptilia, just like bats are mammals and snails are mollusks. |
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The first land snails appeared, and insects with wings that can't fold back such as dragonflies and mayflies flourished and radiated. |
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The cast includes rabbits, pigs, cows, cats, scorpions, seagulls, snails, penguins and bats. |
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These include trilobites, clams, soft bodied and hard-bodied sponges, sea cucumbers, sea lilies, worms, snails, brachiopods, jellyfish, etc. |
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There are now hundreds of thousands of species of insects and green plants, and tens of thousands of mites, spiders, and pulmonate land snails. |
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We found that snails that shot darts effectively had a reproductive advantage over snails that shot poorly. |
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But it turns out that snails don't incorporate the calcium in the dart into their bodies. |
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Successful dart shooters father more babies than do snails that miss with their darts. |
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The fluke utilizes, respectively, freshwater snails and cyprinoid fish as its first and second intermediate hosts. |
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All was well, and we puttered down the street, at a snails pace due to all the traffic. |
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From crabs and snails to frisky sea lions, this is one of the most diverse and active habitats on the planet. |
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Physid snails usually cross-fertilize but are capable of occasional self-fertilization. |
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I've sunken into a crab hole and nearly drop the lunch bucket of snails and crabs. |
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We found all kinds of creatures from leeches to water snails and pond skaters and lots of other typical British aquatic life. |
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Periwinkle snails ordinarily live in ecological harmony with salt marshes, eating only dead cordgrass and a fungus that grows on the plants. |
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In the spring, their diet includes a higher proportion of invertebrates such as insects and snails. |
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Fish eat snails in their shells and hard-shelled crustacea as well as invertebrates with exoskeletons. |
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People turn into snails and violent and gruesome deaths seem to be the only way to escape the grisly vortex. |
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After they've eaten the snails, they'll use the little bread bits to scoop up the leftover sauce. |
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Medium-sized terrapins still relied on small snails but apportioned more of their diet among large snails, blue crabs, and fiddler crabs. |
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Zebra mussels, phragmites, and exotic snails are but a few of the more pervasive impediments to the recovery of some listed species. |
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Hatchlings will feed on macroplankton, small snails, crustaceans and other invertebrates such as hydrozoans and jellies. |
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Vegetation occupied by snails in the zone to be inundated will be removed by hand, stacked on pallets and moved above the flood. |
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In addition to this anemone hermit crab, scientists found several potentially new species of corals, sea stars, snails, and clams. |
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The half-dozen snails were attractively presented in a beige earthenware dish and had been cooked in a herby, garlic butter. |
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Brains of limpets and abalones are much simpler than brains of garden snails and slugs in histological differentiation. |
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They feed on small bony fishes, snails, worms, shrimps, clams, abalone, and crabs. |
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Besides researching thrips, he studies speciation and asexuality in walking sticks and the phylogenetics of Galapagos Islands snails. |
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Thrushes, ladybirds, dragonflies, spiders and hoverfly larvae will snack on aphids, snails and other pests, saving you time, work and money. |
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How about snails in hot tomato sauce, or refried cauliflower with garlic cloves? |
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In the spring children catch butterflies, and in the summer they play with aquatic whirhgig beetles, true water beetles, and snails. |
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If you are the more daring kind, order escargots, glazed snails in a wonderful bed of seasoning with herbs. |
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The springs are home to 24 species not found anywhere else, including ten species of snails and three species of desert pupfish. |
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We had snails, a massive raclette cheese that was cooked at the table, a hot stone to fry the beef on and table fireworks which were alarming. |
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Colombian ramshorn snails lay their eggs in a blob often larger than the snail that produced it. |
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The crows working in harmony with nature lived on the snails, worms, beetles and insects. |
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There's also a freezer full of such frozen goods as okra, cut pigs' feet, snails, jute leaves, hot peppers, red snapper, and hard chicken. |
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Predatory snails, including Oyster Drills, whelks, sponges, especially the Boring Sponges, and fish all find oysters a tasty treat. |
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In pulmonate land snails, variation in gene organization is found at the level of the superfamily. |
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I can't think of a green remedy for woodlice, but as far as the snails are concerned, scattering slug pellets on the ground should help a bit. |
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This site is particularly important for red helleborines, one of four helleborines recorded here, and for rare snails. |
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Additionally, I garden on quite heavy soil with a good population of slugs and snails. |
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A variety of turtles lived in the rivers, along with gar, freshwater clams and snails, crayfish, and alligators. |
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One site said that clarifying agents could control snails, so I sent my son to the chemist for alum. |
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Gardener snakes, grass snakes, ground beetles, box turtles, salamanders, ducks, and larvae of lightning bugs all feed on snails. |
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These measurements avoid dangerous amassments of molluscs along the nets and snails may be fed more quickly and weeding is facilitated. |
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Nature is remorselessly cruel and none more remorseless than the slugs and snails that are currently trying to eat my lettuces before I can. |
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The tiny mollusks, called orchid or bush snails, feast on surface or lateral roots that would otherwise keep the exotic blooms upright. |
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Roswell springsnail, Koster's tryonia and Pecos assiminea are small aquatic snails, while the Noel's amphipod is a freshwater shrimp. |
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Mallards and black ducks also dive for pond snails and probably a range of aquatic insects like dragonfly nymphs. |
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If I have an infestation of slugs or snails or cabbage white butterflies then I will get rid of them in whatever way I choose. |
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If you want an effective non-toxic control for snails and insects in your garden, consider one or two Muscovy ducks. |
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Pupa mtDNA shows many unique features that are shared with pulmonate land snails. |
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These so-called virgin births are common in invertebrates like snails, but are unusual in higher vertebrates. |
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What with ripened berries, snails, slugs and insects, there was a veritable feast on offer. |
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Also among marine snails, thick, nodose, spiny, or otherwise ornamented shells are competitive in the sense that they foil predators. |
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While Pisaster has a very broad diet that includes barnacles, limpets, snails, and chitons, mussels are its preferred prey. |
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Modern species thrive under intense herbivory from snails, chitons, and limpets, and this has been suggested as one reason for their success. |
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Limpkins have a small gap in the bill which helps them carry and handle snails. |
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It is focused on the habitat selection and associations of apple snails, snail kites, and limpkins. |
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Pregerminated seeds are broadcast by hand on the puddled soils, and some farms apply chemicals or natural herbs to control snails. |
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Common food items are small crustaceans, worms, brittlestars, sea urchins, and snails. |
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But to keep the audience guessing the snails are designed to slow down and give away their lead. |
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They're snails when it comes to service. They don't greet you at all and it's just a rude place. |
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The average shell strength of mud snails was twice that of Littorina, and three times that of Uca. |
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Ruddy kingfishers in the Philippines remove land snails from their shells by smashing them against stones on the forest floor. |
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Lobsters are bottom-feeding predators and their diet consists of worms, mussels, snails and other small marine bottom-dwelling organisms. |
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For most species of snails, shells and body plans curl in only one direction. |
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The small body size of Pacific land snails has been considered indicative of the importance of aerial transport, with drift transport secondary. |
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Bluegills are carnivores, primarily eating invertebrates such as snails, worms, shrimp, aquatic insects, small crayfish, and zooplankton. |
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A group of 350 scientists, naturalists, and volunteers found 836 species from fish and arachnids to algae and snails. |
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They paralyse snails with a lethal injection which liquidises their insides and then they suck out the nourishment. |
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Slipper limpet snails are infesting Puget Sound, off the coast of Washington State. |
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The grass has taken and was long and wet in the morning and was full of snails sucking to thick blades. |
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As for cone snails, their shells are collected and sold by the thousands at curio shops to tourists. |
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The legislation met some initial controversy after it was reported that the new law would extend protections to snails and slugs. |
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The children were given the chance to handle giant snails, snake, frogs, tarantulas, scorpions, millipedes and cockroaches. |
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Firefly larvae live underground or beneath leaf litter, feeding on earthworms, snails, slugs, and soft-bodied insect larvae. |
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One or two Muscovy ducks will keep your garden free of snails and are not noisy as some breeds of ducks can be. |
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Watch for giant snails, falconets, malkohas and numerous small birds along the highway that crosses the park. |
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In molluscs, engrailed expression surrounds the shell gland of snails and scaphopods. |
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The white mountain avens needs a moist peaty or sandy soil, and must be protected from slugs and snails. |
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Introducing water plants and scavengers such as water snails and tadpoles into a pond is an easier and less expensive solution. |
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Most commonly they will feed heavily on bloodworm, a little on freshwater shrimps and occasionally upon snails and mussels. |
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In bivalves, chitons, tusk shells and some snails, sperm and eggs are released into the water and fertilisation is external. |
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As gardeners already know, all other slugs and snails sport a soft and slimy foot. |
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Maybe it's their consumption of snails and frog legs that have taken away the mojo of their youth. |
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In The Temple of Doom, Indy walks through a chamber filled with mantises, beetles, worms, millipedes, moths, slugs, snails, and puppy dog tails. |
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Male shrikes in Israel's Negev Desert impale snails and nest-building materials onto thorns to attract mates. |
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Their tricuspid teeth are especially adapted to feed on organisms with hard shells such as clams, snails, crabs and shrimp. |
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Pulmonate snails, millipedes, scorpions, spiders and mites were certainly present, but are not known from fossils. |
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The large collection includes earthworms, slugs, snails, beetles, earwigs, ants, moths, crickets, spiders, millipedes and centipedes. |
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The few sand beaches in the park provide habitat for sand dollars, moon snails, clams and a variety of amphipods such as the beach flea. |
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It must still run a gauntlet of periwinkles, oyster drills, and mud and basket snails, most of which leave egg masses that cover any undeveloped real estate on the shell. |
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It's also the game season and the season for frogs and snails. |
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She pointed out damselfly larva, water beetles, tadpoles, backswimmers, dragon fly larva and snails as they circled around in our tiny sample of the marsh. |
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Another aspect of control is to protect natural mosquito predators such as dragonflies, ants, ground beetles, spiders, water striders, frogs and snails. |
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Snack times are juicy snails and slugs, with woodlice for dessert. |
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It wasn't particularly good science, but an exercise in anthropomorphism, giving snails an eroticism, for example, that one might never have anticipated. |
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They comb the sea floor for sea snails, oysters and mussels. |
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Fruits are lethal for snails, some aquatic life including bilharzia fluke. |
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Freshwater bivalves, snails, and branchiopod Crustacea were common. |
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She is sick to the teeth, she says, with snails eating everything. |
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Since the good rain, snails have bred up, take action now to get a Muscovy ducks, or remove the snails by hand or use snail bait, particularly on seedlings. |
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More conventionally, a sharp barrier such as gravel or crushed seashells or eggshells sprinkled around plants will stop slugs and snails in their tracks. |
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Molluscicides destroy snails and slugs, which can be pests of agriculture or, in waterbodies, the vector of human diseases such as schistosomiasis. |
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Slugs and snails are mainly nocturnal, and the sun's heat can be fatal to slugs and to all mollusc eggs, so cultivate the soil thoroughly to bring them to the surface. |
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The omnivorous diet of these insects is known to include garden pests such as slugs, snails and cutworms, so they can be regarded as beneficial allies. |
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Most of the more recent success stories involve snails, isopods, and other marine animals that have colonized leaf litter or remained in environments close to the seashore. |
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Some snails, sea slugs, and worms embed embryos in gel, often in the form of thin strings or beautiful coiled ribbons that undulate gracefully in the current. |
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Birds, fish and mammals feast on the barnacles, snails, urchins and other animals that vary from tiny shore crabs to spectacular giant green anemones. |
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Water snails don't eat living plants, just decaying vegetation and algae. |
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Children collect termite, snails, and the caterpillars of several insects. |
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I would come into New Zealand, trawl for sea snails, and accidentally catch 20 tonnes of orange roughy, scampi, or whatever it is that happens to be valuable. |
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Tadpoles in ponds with snails pick up trematode larvae, called cercariae. |
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Midway between Kunsan and Osan, we tried to stay clean during a mud festival on a beach, where we also cooked snails and colorful clams over a hibachi and ate them for lunch. |
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Already we have scientists who've developed sunscreen from compounds in coral, and painkillers from the venom of cone shell snails found in the Great Barrier Reef. |
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He showed how terrestrial animals such as snails can survive immersion even in salt water by forming a hard membranous diaphragm over the mouth of the shell. |
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This is demonstrated by the negative correlations between antipredation behavior and antipredation related morphology in snails, intraspecifically and interspecifically. |
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We observed the pair's behaviors continuously until the snails either became unreceptive, achieved mutual copulation, or were separated before copulating. |
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Swimmers' itch, also called cercarial dermatitis, is an itchy rash caused by certain parasites that normally live on waterfowl and freshwater snails. |
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Once infected with flukes, for instance, some species of snails have only a month or so before the parasites castrate them and turn them into food-gathering slaves. |
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It is set in picturesque surroundings, and has rich feeding for the stocked rainbows and browns, with shrimp, snails, perch fry and corixae particularly abundant. |
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Slugs and snails have been public enemy number one in gardens for years. |
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Coffee grounds are often used around plants to repel snails. |
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Fish will come to the surface and appear to gulp air, and snails, crayfish, and other organisms may actually climb out on the bank or up on emergent objects. |
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After a good autumn feed-up, snails, bats, butterflies, snakes, ladybirds, dormice and others find somewhere they hope will remain undisturbed and usually dry. |
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Having eaten nothing but a scorpion and a few sea snails over the past five days, hunger has set in and the men are really starting suffer. |
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Terrestrial snails are raised for food, while species from several phyla are kept for research, and others are bred for biological control. |
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Giant sea snails emit a scent that frightens the crown-of-thorns starfish, the reef's chief predator. |
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The muscular foot that most snails use for locomotion has been modified in the pteropods into delicate fins for swimming. |
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Bink and Slinky are two brightly colored snails who awaken to a message from God on the ground. |
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Other nonvegetarian items include chicken, duck, squab, snails, silkworms, insects, goat, pork, venison, turtle, monitor lizard, etc. |
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The parasite itself is not a mollusc, but all the species have freshwater snails as intermediate hosts. |
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For molluscs like periwinkles and murex sea snails, a shell is a coat of armour. |
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The sea snails save their jumping for conch emergencies, such as when they detect dissolved body odor from the deadly cone snail Conus marmoreus. |
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Also added to the list by the federal government are nine species of snails, four shrubs, three orchids and the Bornemisszas stag beetle. |
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At Restaurant la Chamade, a pounds 29 set menu includes snails in cream with ham, grilled piglet and Reblochon cheese. |
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Goodman reported the presence of 24 different cercarial species from four species of snails. |
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Then the shaking causes the snails statocyst to release GABA, which binds to the neuron. |
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In all replicates, moon snails preferred clams without hydroids over clams with hydroids. |
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Chronic effects of the herbicide Diuron on freshwater cladocerans, amphipods, midges, minnows, worms, and snails. |
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Moon snails displayed a much lower predation activity than the other predators. |
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Putative aporocotylid cercariae from freshwater snails need further taxonomic attention and may represent a phylogenetically unique lineage. |
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Related to slugs and snails, this monster from the deep, along with its cousin the Colossal Squid, is the largest invertebrate in the world. |
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These flukes mature in freshwater fishes, primarily sunfishes and basses, and utilize freshwater snails as intermediate hosts. |
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In another field trial from 1986-1987, moon snails and other consumers were allowed access to clams ranging in size from 15-51 mm. |
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Edible snails are widespread and can cluster in the hundreds waiting for rainfall to reinvigorate them. |
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Wood mulch and pine straw are attractive to everything from pill bugs, snails, snakes and earwigs to carpenter ants. |
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Corvids demolish wire-worms in grain crops, and in root and tuber crops are happy to dine on snails and grubs, caterpillars and insects. |
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Its preferred habitat is scrub and gardens and it feeds on insects, worms, slugs, snails, newts and small rodents. |
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Keep dead leaves removed to lessen hiding spaces for earwigs, snails and pill bugs. |
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Moon snails troop past like pale-purple golf balls, drilling into older clams and making pencil-tip holes. |
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Likewise, we found exquisite examples of drugs made by potatoes, spiders, cone snails, sea slugs and, yes, violets. |
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On board for a 30-day flight are 45 mice, eight Mongolian gerbils, 15 geckos, snails and containers with various microorganisms and plants. |
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Mesurol, the other molluscicide, works better in cloudy conditions since it can kill snails and slugs without the sun's help. |
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A COLLECTION of rare snails have packed up their shells to take refuge in the boiler room of Dudley Zoo. |
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They feed on slugs, snails, cutworms, cabbage root maggots and other pests that live in the soil. |
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Amongst the snails valued by the Romans as a diet was a species from the Balearic isles called cavaticae because they were bred in caves. |
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Most New Zealanders welcome hedgehogs in their gardens as they relish slugs and snails. |
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Tyrian purple is a pigment made from marine snails, sepia is a pigment made from the inky secretions of cuttlefish. |
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Most sea anemones are anchored to one spot, but some species ride around on the backs of hermit crabs and snails to switch locations. |
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In many areas of the UK, vets are seeing cats and dogs with lungworms caused by eating snails, which thrive in wet conditions. |
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It also sometimes had surprising organic shapes, copied after snails and cobras. |
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It is acquired by eating an intermediate larval stage that emerges from snails and encysts on aquatic vegetation. |
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An artificial salt marsh microcosm was created in the lab containing labeled snails and two food choices, Salicornia spp. |
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Regularly handpick slugs, snails, tomato hornworms, and other pests from edible plants. |
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Specifically, they have been noted to feed on crayfish, frogs, snails, salamanders and leeches. |
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It does not mean that snails are more tasty than pav bhaji or that monkey brain is more delicious than nihari. |
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What does the thought of eating huhu grubs and plump snails feel like to you? |
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For half an hour, bathe the refrigerated, tenderized snails in enough white vermouth to cover them. |
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Spatial variation in infection by digenetic trematodes in a population of freshwater snails. |
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Penstemon belong to the family scrophulariaceae, which all seem to be detested by slugs and snails. |
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Limpets are aquatic snails with a shell that is broadly conical in shape and a strong, muscular foot. |
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The sea snails use a modified tooth called a radula, chewing down long lines of tissue in a fashion similar to mowing a lawn. |
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Its larvae are polyphages of freshwater pulmonate snails and egg masses of Lymnaea species. |
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Megupsilon aporus is one of the smallest pupfishes.valleys endemic pupfishes, crayfishes and snails. |
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The leaf-cutter ants walk above your head and the mini-beast section has giant millipedes, snails and crabs. |
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The sea otter may pluck snails and other organisms from kelp and dig deep into underwater mud for clams. |
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Mammals and birds which survived the extinction fed on insects, larvae, worms and snails, which in turn fed on dead plant and animal matter. |
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Lobsters, like snails and spiders, have blue blood due to the presence of hemocyanin which contains copper. |
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Stein focused her research on the systematics, ecology and zoogeography of freshwater snails in eastern North America. |
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Australian researchers reported last year that sea snails in the Southern Ocean are forming thinner shells. |
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Moisture is conserved in this manner in aggregations of Clypeomorus sea snails. |
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In South Korea, they successfully used Google Translate to ask about an unfamiliar sea food, which turned out to be sea snails. |
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Mud can provide a home for numerous types of animals, including varieties of worms, frogs, snails, clams, and crayfish. |
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The most common forms of life, however, were trilobites, snails and shellfish. |
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In the past half dozen years, science has focused on the effect of acidification on Northwest marine life, including oysters, pollock and tiny sea snails called pteropods. |
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In most land snails, a single gene controls the switch between dextrality and sinistrality, meaning that reversals are likely to occur frequently. |
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A final treatment contained no snails, tadpoles, or water bugs to test for direct effects of grazers and indirect effects of water bugs on periphytic algae. |
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For instance, a permaculturist would not despair at the sight of snails and slugs but instead recruit the services of a mollusk-eating goose or duck. |
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African bull frogs, waxy monkey frogs, giant African land snails and tamandua tree anteaters were among the creatures which had their vital statistics recorded yesterday. |
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Baby snails produced by self-fertilization have lower chances of survival. |
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The shells are just 0.04 inch long and were found on a karst formation where conditions are damp, but the snails that inhabit them have yet to be observed. |
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Protection of algific talus slopes may help prevent the need for threatened or endangered status for these other snails and plants like the golden saxifrage. |
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A couple of lyrebirds walk the brush, their ancient silhouettes outlined against the grounds sheltering their fare of insects, myriapods, and snails. |
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Scientists have also observed snails that hitchhike by sticking to ducks' feet and eggs of tiny brine shrimp and other water animals that survive in bird guts. |
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The findings support recent research linking flavanols, especially epicatechin, to improved blood circulation, heart health and memory in mice, snails and humans. |
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Effects of endocrine disruptors on prosobranch snails in the laboratory. |
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Biomechanics specialists have long known that snails and other limbless creatures locomote by sending waves of muscular contractions down their bodies. |
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By inserting the OIT into the exhalant chamber, the distal margin of the gill and the abfrontal surface of the filaments of 7 snails were also observed. |
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Adding in species that eat the calcifiers, such as pink salmon fattening up at sea on swimming snails called pteropods, would boost the percentage. |
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It brings a whole new meaning to snail mail and there's a welcome symmetry when junk mail becomes junk food for snails but the odd bill has been digested beyond recognition. |
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The leaf-cutter ants walk above your head on their tireless mission to get leaves and the minibeast section has giant millipedes, snails and crabs. |
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Their main pests are slugs, snails and the asparagus beetle. |
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This assumption is corroborated by the fact that the proportion of semislugs in the present fauna is low as compared with the proportions of snails and slugs. |
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Though rather weak, their series of eyes can detect surrounding movement and alert precaution in the presence of predators, most commonly sea stars, crabs, and snails. |
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Terrestrial snails in the genera Helix and Murex are raised for food. |
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This is easily seen in snails and sea snails, which have helical shells. |
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Some species of molluscs, particularly certain snails and slugs, can be serious crop pests, and when introduced into new environments, can unbalance local ecosystems. |
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In the space of a few minutes I note ants, spittlebug nymphs, weevils, spiders, snails, slugs, millipedes, worms, beetles, and beetle larvae of all kinds. |
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The worst that can be said of some organic mulches is that they encourage such nuisances as earwigs, sowbugs, slugs, and snails by creating a dark, moist, cool environment. |
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Some SMS sites have low biodiversity, but others are populated by a rich assemblage of species, including tubeworms, clams, snails, shrimp, crabs, and cold-water corals. |
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Snorkelers might spy sea urchins, octopuses, sea cucumbers, starfish, moon snails, wavy-top snails, clams, perhaps even sand dollars and pipe fish. |
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Why wasn't he in some five star noshery sipping champagne and munching on lightly grilled snails served with diamond studded spoons on silver salvers? |
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A significant influx of moon snails has also been entering our pots.While moon snails are neither commercially harvested nor very popular locally, they're absolutely edible. |
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All snakes are strictly carnivorous, eating small animals including lizards, frogs, other snakes, small mammals, birds, eggs, fish, snails or insects. |
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Gastropods such as snails and slugs also cause damage to growth. |
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During the current study, tulips were observed feeding on other tulip snails, scallops, and small venerid clams, and lightning whelks were observed feeding on hard clams. |
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Molluscicidal effects of neem extracts on edible tropical land snails. |
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Sold under the trade mark Maitre Dietrich, Cassolette is composed of snails and mushrooms in a sauce of tomatoes, butter, hazelnuts, almonds, herbs and spices. |
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