Our rainy spring weather has been great for our gardens — but may also have encouraged some unwelcome garden visitors, including snails and slugs. Snails and slugs are similar in structure and biology ...

Diatomaceous earth is a white powder made from crushed ancient diatom fossils. Its sharp edges damage insect bodies, making ...

I was working on a column when my husband Ralph asked me to come take a picture of a huge snail in the garden. Garden snails are my husband’s nemesis. Some men take aim at deer or wild hogs, but my ...

SACRAMENTO — The New Zealand mud snail has been found in a second Northern California river, state wildlife officials said Friday, dashing the hopes of California trout enthusiasts who had hoped to ...

While the process is often thought to occur slowly, these birds have evolved quickly Scientists are mapping snail kites’ genome to determine exactly how it’s happening A graph plotting bill size of ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida, a state that encourages people to kill non-native iguanas, pythons and lionfish, has a new invasive species to worry about: the horntail snail, which has never before ...

Giant African snails can lead to giant problems. A giant African snail sighting in Florida enacted a quarantine over parasite concerns. The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services ...

Snails and slugs are similar in structure and biology, but snails have a characteristic spiral shell while slugs lack a shell. They both chew irregular holes on a variety of plants, preferring to feed ...