A single night of spring rain can transform a quiet garden into a slow-moving feast. Leaves that looked flawless yesterday ...

Slugs and snails can be a mixed blessing in your garden. Slugs are almost exclusively a nuisance, while snails can have some benefits. Generally speaking, however, the drawbacks of each outweigh the ...

British gardeners and farmers may remember 2024 with a shudder – it was widely referred to as “the year of the slug”. Vast ...

Some sea slugs build their eggs with the help of actively photosynthesizing organelles taken up from seaweed 1. Sacoglossans are a superorder of marine molluscs whose idea of brunch is to suck the ...

This summer, the real enemy in many Fairbanks gardens wasn’t drought or moose — it was slugs. “I get more calls about slugs every year,” said Gooseberry Peter, agriculture and integrated pest ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Wander through your backyard or walk along a stream and it’s likely you’ll see a snail – small, squishy animals with shells on their backs.