New Zealand’s Bug of the Year competition has crowned an ancient, bizarre, and surprisingly savage predator as its 2024 ...

It is estimated to have been around in Aotearoa for 500 million years.

In a case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors explain how they figured out the source of her ...

Despite being slow and slimy, slugs and snails have an incredible appetite and need to constantly consume in order to survive. This means that your garden is a veritable smorgasbord of plants ...

Expert guide to the best trail cameras, tested to help you to track and photograph wildlife remotely, day or night After testing numerous trail cameras—also known as camera traps—I've selected the ...

The first complete genome of the Pacific banana slug has been sequenced, providing insights into its unique genetics, such as its self-fertilization ability and numbing slime.

The researchers plan to continue to characterize the populations across the state, and possibly investigate the unique numbing properties of their slime. At a very local level, Corbett-Detig dreams of ...

410 and rifled 12- and 20-gauges. Slug guns haven’t gone away. Even with the changing regulations, plenty of people still shoot their whitetails with shotguns and slugs every year, forgoing the ...

What can I use to deter and get rid of slugs? Gardeners traditionally use things such as crushed eggshells, sharp sand and soot to repel slugs, but these have limited success. There are also a wide ...

January tends to be a quiet time in British gardens as the frosty weather usually means there is not much to do, but slugs can still be a nuisance if you do not take steps to deter them.