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Please tell me how to get rid of snails and/or slugs in my garden ... snap your fingers and the banana trees immediately died, you would still have to dig out the dead bananas to get rid of ...
Over 120 student workers help bring Banana Slug Day to life each year. For thousands of admitted students, Banana Slug Day is more than a campus visit. It’s a chance to see what college life could be ...
Turns out banana slugs are way more intense than we thought - they actually have 90 times more teeth than a great white shark. In this video, we dive into that bizarre fact, explore how it’s ...
SANTA CRUZ — If you attended elementary school in the Santa Cruz area and maybe even beyond in the past four decades, there’s a good chance you learned about the world of nature and how to ...
The Banana Slug String Band has achieved something remarkable ... the showmanship and chops of an entertainer (and more than a modicum of hippie, Grateful Dead-style mellowness). Many of their most ...
Males must first bring females a nuptial gift, usually dead insect wrapped in silk ... by the biggest and fittest mates. Not only can banana slugs be male or female, they often are male and ...
Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species synonymous with California’s coastal redwood forests and the university's beloved ...
Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species synonymous with California’s coastal redwood forests and the university's beloved ...
A 2-foot long ceramic slug was stolen from a Northern California museum, police said. Shannon Sullivan and Jessica Swan A special banana slug statue vanished from a locked-up museum garden ...