Between 2001 and 2016, the U.S.D.A. intercepted semislug-infested plant shipments from Hawaii to the mainland at least forty-five times. If the organism made it across the Pacific, it would have little trouble surviving in warmer parts of the United StatesThe slug (which feeds on lettuce and papaya) is invasive; therefore this lungworm parasite that hosts itself on the slug becomes invasive by default... nature is sick sometimes.
