Snails can be a real nuisance in the garden, sometimes munching their way through plants and vegetables at an alarming rate. However, they are usually relatively easy to deal with, and the vast ...

FILE - A rout of giant African snails gather on Aug. 28, 2019, in a corner in Havana, Cuba. Invasive giant African land snails that can eat building plaster and stucco, consume hundreds of varieties ...

Scary and slimy and nasty — giant African land snails invaded Coral Gables back in 2013, but this time, they’ve come out of their shells and introduced themselves to Miramar, prompting a quarantine ...

Although "Invasion of the Killer Snails" sounds like the title of a 1950s horror film, it could just as well be a recent headline in a South Florida newspaper. First, a bit of history: In the 1920s, ...

Two giant African land snails are held by a Florida Department of Agriculture worker FLORIDA DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE A quarantine zone has been established in a section of South Broward and North ...

Ninety giant African snails were confiscated by US Customs and Border Protection at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport late last month, the agency said in a news release Tuesday.An "odd odor" coming ...

In the forests of New Zealand's North Island, park rangers have been working for more than a decade to save a threatened population of giant snails. Now, these are not your average garden snails. They ...

For people who are squeamish around crawling things, 2023 may not be your year. Different regions of the U.S. are dealing with various infestations that could make people with the strongest ...

Giant African land snails are phenomenal creatures. As you can see from the magnificent specimen in this Instagram post, they can grow the length of an adult human hand. The person in the image looks ...