Alan highlights that hellebores are rarely ever eaten by slugs, suggesting that they may, in fact, be toxic to the pests. He ...

WITH the weekend finally here and the weather heating up, if you want to ensure your garden is guest-ready, you’ve come to ...

Name: Mount Kaputar pink slug (Triboniophorus sp. nov. 'Kaputar' or Triboniophorus aff. graeffei) Where it lives: Mount ...

Slugs can wreak havoc on your garden, with these pests known to feed on a variety of plants, from seedlings to leaves.

Are slugs just snails with bad PR? In fact, slugs - nocturnal gastropod molluscs with no shell - form a fascinating and complex group of creatures whose biology is every bit as interesting ...

‘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 ...

About 70 to 80 percent of semi-slugs carry the parasite and can carry at least twice as many nematode larvae per milligram as other mollusk species. Maui District Health Officer Dr. Lorrin Pang ...

we reached a settlement with the feds that requiring initial listing decisions for all 32 mollusks. In October of that year, the Fish and Wildlife Service determined that 26 species of the snails and ...

Some of the worst are mollusks. Snails and slugs are notorious plant attackers. Tomato plants don’t stand a chance when these beasts come to town. Some folks would reach for the pesticide or ...