Experts got together last week in Gainesville, Florida, for a Giant African Land Snail Science Symposium, to try and find out the best ways to get rid of the snails. Ms Feiber said investigators ...

Florida plant detectives are on the trail of a slippery foe, an invasive African land snail that is wily, potentially infectious and can grow as big as a tennis shoe. In the four years since giant ...

In 2017, the Florida population of the iconic sea snail stood at 700,000 adult queen conchs. But after Hurricane Irma in 2017 and Ian in 2022, that number plummeted to 126,000, per the Miami Herald .