Keep these pests away from your hostas and other tender plants. Snails and slugs may seem like charming little garden buddies ...

Snakes, for some, are the stuff of nightmares. For others, they’re beloved pets or fascinating research subjects. They’re classified in the suborder Serpentes and are related to lizards and other ...

“Typically, people’s experiences with getting bitten are due to an interaction that was inadvertent — they stumble upon a snake or reach for something without seeing one camouflaged,” said ...

Whether you’re walking on a park trail or hiking in the woods, it’s exciting to see a snake in the wild. It could be a small one slithering through a pile of leaves on its way back to its hole. Or ...

How big they are: Can range from 4 inches (10 centimeters) to over 30 feet (9 meters) There are about 4,000 different snake species in the world today. They occupy a wide range of habitats ...

Louisiana is home to 48 different species of snakes, but only seven of these species are venomous. Louisiana's venomous snakes include three different species of rattlesnake, two species of coral ...

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 ...

As milder conditions take hold, so will some of the garden's pests. Slugs and snails are not everyone’s favourite creatures, and they are often considered a gardener’s public enemy number one.

This spring will see far fewer slugs in gardens compared with last year, experts from the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) predict. After a bumper year for the slimy molluscs in 2024, the charity ...

Also called the scrub python, it is the longest snake found in Australia. They average around five metres but some have been spotted measuring over 8 metres as well.

St Patrick’s Day used to be a simple affair. Put on your green hand-me-down geansaí or gúna, maybe go to mass, perahps watch ...