Our rainy spring weather has been great for our gardens — but may also have encouraged some unwelcome garden visitors, including snails and slugs. Snails and slugs are similar in structure and biology ...

The British Invasion by the Beatles may not have been much of a problem to American gardens, but the French invasion by brown snails is. Since getting imported as escargot, they eat much more than ...

Rat lungworm disease: It may be rare but it’s memorable – like a horror movie come to life. Nightmarish tales of muscle spasms, temporary paralysis and comas stemming from rat lungworm infection ...

It’s fun to watch the monarch butterflies sip nectar and lay eggs on the Asclepias (butterfly weed). It’s fun to watch the caterpillars turn into butterflies. It’s not fun watching the many looper ...

We live in Montrose and the last couple of years we've had snails in our yard, the big, hard back, round kind. They have really become prolific this year. It is shady and they seem to like the more ...

For a couple of years, I've been battling little brown round snails that are eating holes in plant leaves and leaving rasp scrapings on stems. Now there is a new conical-shaped snail in my potted ...

Schistosomiasis (also known as snail fever) affects more than 250 million people worldwide. Individuals become infected after skin contact with the schistosome parasite in contaminated water, and, ...

Snails and slugs are similar in structure and biology, but snails have a characteristic spiral shell while slugs lack a shell. They both chew irregular holes on a variety of plants, preferring to feed ...