If you have noticed ragged, irregular holes in your hostas or other broad-leaf garden plants, you may be dealing with garden slugs. These soft-bodied pests can be found in shady, ...

The first new species, Peltospira gargantua, was found on a black smoker chimney in the Hydra field at a depth of about 12,300 feet, researchers said.

Succulents form a similar texture barrier with their waxiness and, with some varieties, spikiness. They are also ver ...

Is traditional French cooking really making a bold return after years in the cold, or is something stranger going on?

If you’ve joined the urban farming movement but your garden gets more shadows than sunlight, don’t worry—you’re not out of ...

Slugs may not be everybody’s idea of an ideal pet, but they’re fascinating creatures. These shell-less gastropod mollusks are related to snails, whelks, and abalones. Many people think that slugs are ...

If life were simple, there would be snails ... slug belongs to the family Helicarionidae, and is found all over the world, including the coastal regions of Australia. It represents an intermediate ...

The 65-year-old crucially did not know the French for slug, limace, so frantically tried to explain what he had eaten and described it as a "snail without a house". The French police believed he ...

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In this assay, the containers free of the slug and the control agents was considered as a positive control. Also, a treatment including the slug and without the control agents ... term feeding ...

Microplastics were detected in nearly 12% of UK land invertebrates sampled, with earthworms and slugs/snails showing the highest contamination rates. Polyester was the most common plastic type.

Slugs and snails feel like the natural enemies of many green-fingered gardeners, though only a few species actually put your hard-earned seedlings at risk. But killing them isn’t the answer.