Slugs and snails are notorious leaf chewers in vegetable, flower, and fruit gardens. Both belong to the animal family called ...

The average garden in the UK contains more than 20,000 slugs, so it's not surprising that the pests sometimes munch on our beloved plants and flowers.

Most of the slugs and snails that eat your garden are not native. They live where they are unseen - in the fallen leaf litter, under mulch and around dark, damp places. At night, they munch on ...

The snails are named for the dark spiral band on the shoulder of their shells and are typically found in leaf litter and on the shady undersides of lower branches of native dune shrubs. They are ...