KAILUA-KONA — Two years ago, no one could find a trace of the semi-slug in North Kohala. Staff from the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy at the University of Hawaii-Hilo (UHH) confirmed the ...

A horrifying neurological disease is spreading thanks to an invasive mixed-species mollusk called semi-slugs, according to a new study. There have been a total of 82 cases of the brain infection, k… ...

Over a 10-year period in Hawaii, ... The semi-slug can carry a high concentration of rat lungworm parasites and climbs “more frequently” compared with other slug and semi-slug species, ...

Officials have blamed the recent boom in human cases, in part, on an explosion of an invasive “semi-slug,” which is particularly good at picking up the parasite. All in your head ...

A baby semi-slug is shown on a nickle. Snails, slugs and certain other animals (including freshwater shrimp, land crabs, and frogs) can become infected by ingesting the larvae of the rat lungworm ...

If people think they’ve found a semi-slug, they should take a photo and send it to MISC, she said. “We’re probably at the beginning of the spread of the semi-slug population,” Strohecker said.

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In 2004, a species of semi-slugs was discovered in the Hawaii islands and identified as Parmarion martensi, a polyphagous semi-slug that can grow well in a moisture-rich place like Hawaii ...

Consider the risk in fauna. In Hawaii, up to 70 percent of a newly-invasive semi-slug carry rat lungworm larvae, while a 2017 Florida study found the parasite in one in five rats and one in 50 snails.