Gardening can become a slimy nightmare in the warm months, when vegetables, flowers, fruit are all voraciously chomped to destruction by slugs and snails. "They like to eat the young seedlings of sown ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Researchers here are working on a natural way to kill slugs that is just as effective as poison, but safer to use around plants and animals. This work may give Americans a new way to ...

Slug season has arrived to plague gardeners intent on enjoying their vegetables and flowers themselves. To help combat the slimy plant slurpers, artist Terry Mullins, of Cornelius, has cooked up a ...

A friend recently found one of the most remarkable little beasts I have ever seen on the window of her car (parked in Kittery). At first, I didn’t even know what kind of animal I was looking at. It ...