Question

Which of the following is the most commonly found garden slug?
A) Limulus
B) Limax
C) Pila
D) Helix

Answer 1

Slugs are a gardener's worst enemy. They will hide under leaves in your garden's wet areas and consume practically anything they come across. Because they consume both the leaves and the fruit, garden slugs are particularly detrimental to vegetable and berry crops.

Complete answer:
Slugs can be treated in the garden at any point during the growing season. However, it's not always easy to see they're there. During the day, they blend in with the brown dirt and hide in moist, dark spots.

Limulus: It is a horseshoe crab genus that includes only one species, the Atlantic horseshoe crab. Although several more species have been identified and allocated to other genera, the genus currently has only one fossil species.

The yellow slug (Limax flavus) is also known as the tawny garden slug. It's a Mollusca that lives on land. They perceive the environment using two sets of tentacles. It is commonly parasitized by nematodes. As a result, option B is the proper response.

Pila: Pilla is a genus of big freshwater snails with an operculum, often known as African and Asian apple snails, which are aquatic gastropod molluscs belonging to the Ampullariidae family.

A helix: Helix is a spiral staircase or corkscrew-like form. Because the DNA molecule is made up of two interwoven helices, and many proteins have helical substructures known as alpha helices, helices are significant in biology.

Yellow slugs, like the majority of other land slugs, perceive their surroundings through two sets of tentacles on their heads. The upper pair, known as optical tentacles, detect light. The slug's sense of smell is provided by the lowest pair, known as oral tentacles. Both pairs can retract and lengthen to escape dangers, and they can be regrown if they are lost due to an accident or predation.

Note: The yellow slug glides slowly, sliding along with a sequence of muscular contractions on the underside of its foot, which is lubricated with mucus and leaves a slime trail behind it, as do other slugs.