While most people believe that aphids on flowers must be fought for the blooms to thrive, the opposite is true. Discover why ...

Slugs and snails are widely disliked among gardeners, especially when they are invading your plants and vegetable patch. These pests are nocturnal creatures, only coming out at night to feed.

Slugs and snails are the number one pests in any garden and tricky to control. They feed on plants' leaves, stems, flowers, and fruits. Damage to plants is usually viewed as irregular holes and ...

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However, experts have warned that this means you have to be careful that they don’t get munched away by slugs. Slugs are omnivorous and love to nibble away at all sorts of highly unpleasant ...

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What can I use to deter and get rid of slugs? Gardeners traditionally use things such as crushed eggshells, sharp sand and soot to repel slugs, but these have limited success. There are also a wide ...

As milder conditions take hold, so will some of the garden's pests. Slugs and snails are not everyone’s favourite creatures, and they are often considered a gardener’s public enemy number one.

Ambuj Tewari receives funding from NSF and NIH. The microplastics project is funded by the “Meet the Moment” initiative of the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science, and the ...