The pronunciation of slug is: kuòyú

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The slug, a mollusc in the slug family of the order Gastropoda Stalk-eyed. The slug looks like a snail without a shell, with a dark black, dark gray, yellowish-white, or grayish-red body; two pairs of antennae; a horny, toothed tongue in the mouth; an anterior dorsal end of the body with an outer coat membrane, with rolled-up edges, and with distinct concentric lines of growth; respiratory pores on the right side of the body anterior to the right side of the body, with a fine, colorful line encircling them; and a colorless mucus. Androgynous.

Slugs are widely distributed in the Yangtze River basin in China, born in damp and dark farmland and wild land, lurking during the day and active at night and on rainy days. Slugs mainly parasitize the tops of strawberries, kale, cauliflower and other plants, feeding on their leaves and fruits. Slugs are heterozygous fertilized and can also reproduce by homozygous fertilization, laying eggs from May to July, with an egg period of 16 to 17 days, and from hatching to sexual maturity of adults in about 55 days.

Slugs were first published in the "Ben Jing", its flavor is salty, cold; with heat and detoxification, swelling and pain, break the stasis of menstruation, wind and other efficacy; the main treatment of carbuncle sores and swelling, sore throat, menstrual closure, prolapse of the anus, etc.; especially for the centipede's bite wounds, extremely effective.

Slugs are a harmful animal, it is directly feeding, edible fungi, the original base and the child entity bite into the jagged, serious damage to the child entity so that it is mutilated, the loss of commercial value, and by it crawling through the child entity, often leaving a white or yellowish mucus band marks, affecting the quality of the product.

Slugs have obvious avoidance of sunlight. At sunrise, slugs migrate and crawl the fastest, every 15 minutes the slugs move 65 centimeters, and quickly dive into the shade to hide. In a dark room, they can move around and feed day and night. Slugs often start their activities at night, and the peak of slug activity for feeding is from 23:00 to 3:00 at night.

From December to March next year, slugs mostly lurk in the cracks of ridges and wet soil under the soil block to overwinter, and then come out again when the weather turns warm. Overwintering individuals are mainly sexually mature individuals, followed by some egg masses and small slugs.