Snails and slugs are common pests in gardens. They belong to the mollusk family along with oysters, and they crawl along over ...

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 ...

Nothing beats a warm spring rain to bring on the slime patrol. When it comes to slugs and snails in the garden, and boy do we have a ton of them on the North Coast, a good approach is to think of ...

Common garden snails (the big brown ones) are quite destructive, especially to seedlings and small plants. They usually emerge at night to munch on tender young plants, leaving their silvery slime ...

Most snails that visit your garden are pesky, but they aren't typically a threat to your health. If anything, some snails are more helpful than harmful, aiding the composting process and providing ...

A case of mistaken identity sparked a false alarm this week when word spread that the giant African snail - a voracious mollusk that poses a potential health threat to humans - had come to town. Turns ...