Slimy Bugs

Earthworm Earthworms have no eyes, ears, or lungs. But they make the soil they live in more fertile and provide food for many other animals. Slug

Slugs are slow-moving mollusks. Most slugs feed on leaves and can damage trees and plants.

Snail Snails are a kind of mollusk that lives on land and in the water. Mollusks have soft bodies and a hard shell. The giant African snail, shown here, is the largest land mollusk.

Termites Termites live in colonies (groups) with as many as several million members. They feed on wood and can do great damage to trees and wooden buildings.

Sea Slug

Sea Slug, common name for a group of shell-less marine gastropods, members of the mollusk phylum. In the adult sea slug, the shell is absent, but it is present during embryonic development. They are also called nudibranchs. They usually live in shallow water and feed on algae, mollusks, and other small marine invertebrates. Sea slugs are often beautifully colored. They breathe either through their skin or by feathery structures called adaptive gills, which are arranged either in rows along their backs or in a circle about the anus when it is located on the dorsal surface. Most species have two pairs of tentacles. Some forms possess no tentacles and are unique in having many eyes on their backs. There are approximately 1000 species of sea slugs. The plumed, 10-cm (4-in) maned nudibranch is a familiar species on the Atlantic coast of North America, where it glides among seaweeds or swims in water and takes on the color of the anemones on which it preys. On the Pacific coast, the Hopkins’ doris is a bright rose-pink sea slug that inhabits the intertidal zone and eats a pink encrusting bryozoan.

Tube Worms Tube worms are members of the diverse biological communities found in the deep ocean at hydrothermal vents. These filter- feeding animals can be up to 4 m (13 ft) in length

Velvet worms

The velvet worm has characteristics of both the phylum Arthropoda (jointed-legged animals) and the phylum Annelida (segmented worms). The term worm does not represent any particular animal group and can be applied to many soft-bodied, usually elongated, animals that lack well-developed lim.