LA museum enlists volunteers in search for bugs, plants

Jann Vendetti, Assistant Curator of Malacology at Los Angeles' Natural History Museum, holds a snail as she explains the BioSCAN SLIME project on Wednesday, April 13, 2016. Snails and slugs Living in Metropolitan Environments (SLIME) is a citizen science project that aims to catalog the biodiversity of terrestrial gastropods (land snails and slugs) in Los Angeles County and throughout Southern Calif. Citizens take a focused picture of the snails and slugs they find and upload them to the SLIME iNaturalist web page. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)