See if the snails in your garden have a homing instinct. This exercise is an entertaining way to investigate the behaviour of a common garden pest. It will increase your children's investigative ...
If it gets too dry, snails can go into a dormancy called aestivation, or if it gets too cold, they might hibernate. There are snails and slugs everywhere! If you have a garden, you’ll find them hiding ...
Slugs and snails are a key food source for many garden visitors such as frogs and ground beetles, and declining species including song thrushes and hedgehogs. They can even clean algae off the gla ...
The soil in his snail-raising garden is already calcium-rich, and the feed is as environmentally friendly as it is nurturing. Snails merely feed on organic vegetable food scraps which creates a ...
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 ...