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

‘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 ...

Slugs, often referred to as naked snails, present a formidable challenge for many gardeners. Their frequent emergence ...

Hawaiʻi is considered the epicenter of rat lungworm disease, which is spread when people accidentally consume snails and ...

The average garden in the UK contains more than 20,000 slugs, so it's not surprising that the pests sometimes munch on our ...

Gardeners who have slug pellets in their shed have been issued a legal warning about using them after a law change. They have long been used by gardeners as a means of pest control in the eternal war ...

For plants in the ground, we found the biological control Nemaslug is effective against slugs, but not snails. There is one chemical option: pellets containing ferric phosphate. Ferric phosphate-based ...

The state agency warns that the snails were found to have a "low-level presence" of rat lungworm. They note that likelihood ...

Gardening expert Karen Gimson has shared her top tip for keeping slugs away from your plants and flowers - and you probably ...

From pruning and spraying to cutting back and attacking slugs, February is full of important chores for the attentive gardener.