Laura Jesse, of Iowa State University Extension's Plant & Insect Diagnostic Clinic, wrote the following about garden slugs: There seem to be plenty of slugs in my garden, but I hope not in yours.

A Red Slug, Arion rufus, climbing over a Cleavers or Goosegrass plant growing in the wild. - Sandra Standbridge/Getty Images You may have noticed those slimy slugs wreaking havoc in your garden. After ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Slugs and snails like to attack heads of lettuce and flowers. Getting rid of them is no mean feat. Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/dpa ...

COVINGTON, Wash.- When Chris?O'Brien spotted his dog burrowing in the grass during a walk near his Covington home, O'Brien decided to get a closer look. He discovered?a strange looking slug. That ...

Even for the most ardent nature fan, it is all too easy to overlook slugs. Not only are they small, on the ground, and well, sluggish, they also don’t tend to please the average gardener. They eat ...

They’re slithery, slimy and they love to make a smorgasbord of your crops. The drab and inconspicuous slug continues to increase its rank of pests you should scout for and monitor in your corn and ...

Gardening at night has its rewards. For me, it offers a way to stay on top of planting and weeding while balancing work and family responsibilities. It is also cooler at night, and the quiet act of ...

are essentially snails without shells, terrestrial cousins of clams and oysters. They are gastropods, slime-producing mollusks that carry their stomachs inside their single “foot,” which is also their ...

It was slimy, it was slippery … it was science as usual in the St. Jude third grade class as students completed a science nab about all things “sluggish.” Students completed a slug lab using the ...