Slugs and snails are the bane of any budding gardener's life as they can devour cabbages and ruin your flower beds, but with ...

Gardening expert Pim Dickson suggested that the "simplest solution" is to gather all of the slugs and snails in your garden ...

For plants in the ground, we found the biological control Nemaslug is effective against slugs, but not snails. There is one chemical option: pellets containing ferric phosphate. Ferric phosphate-based ...

AI helps scientists decode a cone snail toxin’s targets, paving the way for safer drug development and ecological research.

Whilst slugs and snails become more active in the spring, they can appear in the winter if the temperatures are warm enough.

When scientists develop new molecules—whether for the purposes of agriculture, species control, or life-saving drugs—it's ...

There are a whole bunch of things you’ll need to consider when it comes to keeping snails. From creating the perfect habitat ...

This peptide, isolated from cone snail venom, has similar amino acid sequences to somatostatin ... Consomatin G1’s protein structure provides researchers with insights into natural compounds with ...

However, this delicacy of land snails that has become synonymous with the French kitchen may have found its popularity by way of Vienna, where today, one eccentric snail farmer is resurrecting the ...

Using this sense, snails and slugs can search for food by following trails. To them, the world is a rich mix of chemicals. This makes up for their limited vision. They can only see differences in ...