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Q: The winter rains have brought out the snails again. They’ve started chewing up my bedding plants again, and I’ve tried for years but have never been able to get rid of the snails. A neighbor told ...
If your plants are being chewed up by slimy visitors, can eggshells keep them away, or is this hack a myth? Get the facts ...
They're neither white and gold or black and blue. But in an optical puzzle akin to The Dress, colourful snails are causing scientists turn to technology to definitively decide whether some snails' ...
I found this beautifully coloured snail atop a sand dune on Ventry beach in Co Kerry. Is it native or did it float ashore on something from a distant land? Frank Folan, Ballyvaughan, Co Clare Well, if ...
Size, density and distribution of the brown garden snail (Cantareus aspersus) were observed relative to cover at a coastal reserve on the North Island, New Zealand. Cover variables depended on ...
A tiny new snail species discovered in Thailand has been named after legendary artist Pablo Picasso, due to the strange, complex geometric patterns seen on its shell. The species, measuring only 3 ...