Officials offer cash prizes to residents to fight back against slug invasion: 'Last summer, the situation got out of hand'

Officials offer cash prizes to residents to fight back against slug invasion: 'Last summer, the situation got out of hand'

An unwelcome visitor has pushed authorities in southern Finland to offer cash prizes for its removal.  The so-called Spanish slug is an aggressive and invasive gastropod that does immense damage to crops throughout Europe. Despite its name, it's not clear where the species actually originated; as the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum reported, German researchers could not find any of them in Spain. Regardless of their nat…