This news release is available in German. Slugs and other invertebrates provide essential public transport for small worms in the search for food, according to research published in the open access ...

A slug of the genus Arion is common to northern Germany. It's also an express train for tiny nematodes that hitch rides in the slug's gut to get from food source to food source. Carola Petersen, ...

A slug of the genus Arion is common to northern Germany. It's also an express train for tiny nematodes that hitch rides in the slug's gut to get from food source to food source. A slug of the genus ...

Slugs are wreaking havoc across British gardens as the wet weather continues into summer 2024. Gardening legend Alan Tichmarsh has compared them to bed bugs, admitting he chucks them over his fence to ...

Why did the tiny nematode worm cross the road? Well, for all the usual reasons. But a more interesting question is “how did it make the crossing?” Turns out, it may have hitched a ride—inside a slug, ...

How do you get from point A to point B if you’re only a millimeter long? For supersmall roundworms, the answer is simple: just hitch a ride inside the nearest slug. New research has revealed that ...

13:46, Mon, Mar 17, 2025 Updated: 13:51, Mon, Mar 17, 2025 As the soil in our gardens warms up this spring, more and more slugs will head out to feast on new growth. Experts recommend that people act ...

Slugs don't just wreck your precious plants – they're also magnets for nasty fungal infections that can devastate your entire garden - but there's a brilliant trick to send them away without reaching ...

Slugs and other invertebrates provide essential public transport for small worms in the search for food, according to new research. Slugs and other invertebrates provide essential public transport for ...

Just why the parasite might influence its host to pick up more parasites is unclear, making some researchers question if P. hermaphrodita is indeed manipulating its host’s behavior. “What the authors ...

One way to study the human brain is to look at the brains of other animals. We aren't all that different, especially on the molecular level. In Brain Sense, I wrote about how the lowly nematode, ...