Q. Primula is very beautiful but also very expensive. Is there any problem with it and cold weather in the winter?

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

The hood of B. caudactylus can also act something like a Venus flytrap. While it is not a hinged structure like the leaves of ...

Some of the worst are mollusks. Snails and slugs are notorious plant attackers. Tomato plants don’t stand a chance when these beasts come to town. Some folks would reach for the pesticide or ...

‘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 ...

Experts shared tips with more than 100 residents on how to hunt for slugs and snails, protect gardens and catchment tanks and take extra precautions with raw foods. Rat lungworm is caused by a ...

Home remedies used to deter slugs and snails from prized plants appear to have no scientific basis. Using the likes of grit or egg shells to guard against slug attack did not reduce damage to ...

Like all gastropods (slugs and snails) whose bodies are made of mostly water, banana slugs must stay moist to stay alive. To avoid dehydration, gastropods secrete a layer of mucus, or slime ...

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 ...