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 ...

However, as devoted gardeners know, the quest for floral perfection often includes impediments — and in the case of petunias, primary adversaries come in the form of snails and slugs. To eradicate ...

Gardeners are being urged not to kill slugs and snails after a boom in their numbers due to wet and warm weather. The Devon Wildlife Trust said there were about 40 species of slugs but only up to ...

Slugs and snails are very discerning in what they eat, bypassing the weeds to devour our favourite plants. They're difficult to stop and, while you can still use bated pellets containing ferric ...

Slugs and snails reign as the notorious villains in our gardens, infamous for their stealthy night-time ambushes on our prized plants. Yet the experts have waved the red flag concerning chemical ...