Nothing beats a warm spring rain to bring on the slime patrol. When it comes to slugs and snails in the garden, and boy do we have a ton of them on the North Coast, a good approach is to think of ...

August is the time to get rid of snails and slugs, like this Great Gray Garden Slug. Andreas Häuslbetz Getty Images/iStockphoto The third week of August is when you may be getting tired of your garden ...

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 ...

Slugs and snails are mollusks and are related to oysters and clams. Snails are the ones with shells and slugs are the ones without shells. These tiny animals eat using their rasping mouthpart called ...

Regular and even abundant rainfall in the spring and early summer has encouraged high populations of snails and slugs this year. Snails and slugs belong to the mollusk family along with oysters. They ...

To minimize your risk of rat lungworm disease in your garden, it is important to control and exclude all hosts of the parasite — rats, snails and slugs. Select an option below to continue reading this ...

Slugs and snails know they're not going to live through the winter, so they're laying eggs like crazy this time of year. The old-fashioned slug bait is poisonous and can harm your pets; the new kinds ...

Snails and slugs are common in our Florida landscapes. But their control requires an understanding of their habits. Snails and slugs are similar as far as their habits and habitats are concerned. But ...

CORVALLIS – New research from Oregon State University Extension Service found slugs and snails are strongly attracted to bread dough, a discovery that could lead to better ways of controlling these ...

Prowling for snails and slugsWhen one considers the sheer quantity, by volume, of slug and snail bait sold to gardeners around the world, the fact that these gastropods continue to live - dare I say ...

While winter's chill keeps us indoors with garden catalogs in hand, our friends the slugs arise from the coziness of their earthly dens to scoot about -- OK, more like ooze about -- devouring our ...

Don Wirth is searching for slimy vampires that steal the lifeblood from his fields. With Mt. Hood and the majestic Cascades over his shoulder, Wirth lifts a roof shingle and checks the improvised trap ...