It’s snail and slug season. The slimy mollusks are most active when temperatures are mild and rain or irrigation provide ample moisture. They can be bad pests in a garden, but some are good and a few ...

It's easy to spot snails and slugs when they're large, but finding one snail is a sign that you need to start looking around and find the smaller snails or slugs that are sure to be nearby. Snails and ...

It has always been said that agriculture holds the ace for solving the economic problems of Nigeria. The Shell is a calcareous concave cone coil clockwise in three or four whorls. The shell is covered ...

Gardeners have puzzled for years as to why some seedlings are more commonly eaten by slugs and snails - and new research suggests it may be down to the smells produced by young seedlings in the early ...

We took pictures of the dorsal views of whole beetle bodies with a 2-mm mesh sheet using a digital camera equipped with a macro lens (PowerShot A40; Canon, Tokyo, Japan). Each image was viewed on a ...