More issues with slugs and snails are on the rise after significant rainfall in parts of the country this spring. A slug is a snail without a shell, and they both favor a habitat that is wet and cool.

A snail is an equally comforting and discomfiting creature. Its ornamental shell is both a home and armor. Its glacial pace, often accompanied by a viscous sludge it leaves behind, make it a messy ...

Though pond snail shells usually curl clockwise, they can also curl the opposite way—with some interesting consequences. For one, mating with their right-handed counterparts is nearly impossible.

A small snail hitchhikes 6km upstream on the back of a larger snail. It’s a unique sort of parasite that uses its host not as food, an incubator or a home, but as a living taxi.

They have soft bodies, resembling snails without the shell, and feed at night and on cloudy days. The feeding damage appears as large, irregular holes in the leaves.

Most land snails' shells have a single coiling axis, making for a simple spiral. Some have two axes, often starting out coiling one way during the early stages of growth, and then flipping by 90 ...

It's amazing how much a slug looks like a snail without a shell. In fact, slugs and snails are both members of the gastropod class of the mollusk phylum.