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 ...

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 ...

Slugs and snails are among the most troublesome garden pests, causing havoc all year round by feasting on plants. Despite the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) deciding in March 2022 that slugs ...

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.

Scientists for the first time have uncovered an underworld of animal life thriving beneath the seafloor. Researchers have long studied animal communities near such hydrothermal vents. Many thought ...

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 ...