How do I know if woodlice are actually causing the ... Keep composting areas away from growing areas. Repointing walls and paving and mending damaged wooden structures will help prevent them hiding in ...

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 ...

a substitute for a snail's mucus which also acts as an adhesive. The study, which was published May 13 in Nature Communications, shows a novel way for robots to scale walls easily, potentially ...

An expedition to a volcanically active ridge in the Pacific off South America has revealed worms, snails, giant tubeworms and other strange creatures lurking below steamy underwater hot springs.

Minibeasts, like woodlice ... such as snails, have shells. Others have a hard outer layer called an exoskeleton. The first part of this word ‘exo-‘ means outside, so an exoskeleton is an ...

Scientists have found Partula snails born in the wild on the French Polynesian island of Moorea, showing that a 40-year effort to save these tiny creatures is working. Partula snails were wiped ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australian writer-director Adam Elliot’s celebrated “claymation biographies” are definitely not for children. They’re ...

When: In cinemas from October 17. Likely to make you feel: Like an emotional wreck. Memoir of a Snail — the new feature-length film from Australian filmmaker Adam Elliot, best known for the 2003 ...