DE SO The slug is a relative of the snail. It has a long rounded body and moves about on a muscular foot. As it moves, it leaves behind a glistening trail of slime. (1)___________its mouth is a ribbon-like tongue with many rows of tiny teeth. The slug uses this (2)___________like a file to rasp up its food.Most slugs (3)___________ on living or decaying plants, and thus do (4)___________good in clearing away dead vegetation. However, they(5)___________ also do much damage in a vegetable garden (6)___________ eating up precious vegetables. Some slugs are carnivorous (7)___________ flesh-eating. They can be distinguished from the vegetarian slugs by the tiny shell each (8)___________ near the hind end of its body. They feed on worms, caterpillars and also their relatives, the vegetarian slugs that does so much harm to seedlings.Gardeners kill as many slugs as they can because of the damage they do to vegetables and fruits growing on the (9)___________. Salt kills slugs and some gardeners put down garden salt to keep off the troublesome tiny black slugs. The usual way of killing slugs, however, (10)___________ to put down a slug-killer in the form of bran mixed with poisonmetaldehyde.

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