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

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 ...

‘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 ...

Experts shared tips with more than 100 residents on how to hunt for slugs and snails, protect gardens and catchment tanks and take extra precautions with raw foods. Rat lungworm is caused by a ...

However, as devoted gardeners know, the quest for floral perfection often includes impediments — and in the case of petunias, ...

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 ...