Snails and slugs are common pests in gardens. They belong to the mollusk family along with oysters, and they crawl along over a thin layer of slime that they produce to ease their way. Snails carry a ...

The question seemed innocuous, the woman with frizzy blond hair and pink lipstick asking it harmless. A free ride to the Pentagon? Why not? I’d been waiting 15 minutes for the bus already. But as we ...

The slug season is upon us, it seems. I recently pulled the first little brown slug off one of my garden plants. There will be more! The proper common name of the small brown slug is reticulate ...

With winter months turning our skin dry and flaky, some skincare gurus have come up with a simple cure that many swear by - slugging. Thankfully, the trend doesn’t involve any slithering molluscs - ...

From movement to mating signals, slug slime plays a vital role in survival and explains those silvery garden trails.

Most of us have been very disrespectful toward snails and slugs, thinking disgusted thoughts and turning into executioners of the low-riding mollusks. David Gordon wants to change your perception. The ...

Thiis is the third in my "How to Do Life" series of fables. Sam the slug lamented, "I'm so slow and so ugly." His mother told him he's not ugly but he doesn't believe it. After all, all the other ...

UC Santa Cruz’s Slug Bike Life has been awarded $712,000 for phase II of the bike safety, information and encouragement program. “We’re a bike-friendly campus where we encourage people to bike, and it ...

At 19 years old, a rugby player in Australia, became a paraplegic after swallowing a garden slug as a dare at a birthday party. Sam Ballard of Sydney, who is now 28, became seriously ill after he ate ...

Thiis is the third in my "How to Do Life" series of fables. Sam the slug lamented, "I'm so slow and so ugly." His mother told him he's not ugly but he doesn't believe it. After all, all the other ...