Slugs and snails are notorious leaf chewers in vegetable, flower, and fruit gardens. Both belong to the animal family called ...

‘I love snails and slugs! I just think they’re fascinating,’ says Jon Ablett, our Curator of Molluscs. ‘They’re an unnoticed part of our biodiversity, so it’s my mission to make people look around and ...

One is tempted to ask, just what is the point of this unappealing animal? Are slugs just snails with bad PR? In fact, slugs - nocturnal gastropod molluscs with no shell - form a ...

Gardeners are being urged not to kill slugs and snails after a boom in their numbers due to wet and warm weather. The Devon Wildlife Trust said there were about 40 species of slugs but only up to ...

The captured slugs and snails should be submerged in a saline solution — 7 cups of water and 1 cup of salt — for 48 hours, to kill both the creatures and the parasites.

Home remedies used to deter slugs and snails from prized plants appear to have no scientific basis. Using the likes of grit or egg shells to guard against slug attack did not reduce damage to ...

Rat lungworms are small parasitic roundworms, or nematodes, that live in rats and snails. Rats host the worm and pass larvae through their feces, which are eaten by the slugs. Rats then eat the ...