With gardening season in full swing, let's remember to use pet-safe products in the yard, OK? One scourge most gardeners must grapple with is the slimy kind: snails and slugs. But beware. The most ...

Q. Something has been eating my seedlings out of my vegetable garden. Most of them have just disappeared overnight. How can I figure out which creatures are responsible and how to stop them? Seedlings ...

Snails cluster on a plant leaf at the garden of the sun, while snail damage is evident on the leaves. Fresno Bee File Photo The garden pests that cause damage to plants in spring are not necessarily ...

Common garden snails were brought to California in the 1850s as a source of escargot. Whoever introduced them should have immediately been sent into exile. They quickly (for snails anyway) escaped to ...

Q: Help! I just planted my garden, and something is eating all of my little transplants. I think it may be snails. What is the best way to get rid of them? A: Snails can do a lot of damage to tender ...

It wouldn’t seem like much of a contest, and they don’t really seem like worthy foes. At their largest, they’re a couple of inches long. Their top speed is .003 miles per hour. Flat out, with no ...

Nothing beats a warm spring rain to bring on the slime patrol. When it comes to slugs and snails in the garden, and boy do we have a ton of them on the North Coast, a good approach is to think of ...

Our sidewalks and patios sparkle with the shiny, silvery mucous trails of snails and slugs in the early autumn mornings. Snails and slugs hibernate during hot and dry summer weather (as well as in ...

Q: Decades ago, when I was living on Orcas Island, I had a large home garden, over an acre, and kind of welcomed the big fat banana slugs. Early morning patrols with a couple of pieces of sharpened ...