Slugs can wreak havoc on your garden, with these pests known to feed on a variety of plants, from seedlings to leaves.

Alan highlights that hellebores are rarely ever eaten by slugs, suggesting that they may, in fact, be toxic to the pests. He ...

If you notice your leafy plants getting nibbled away in the middle of the night, slugs might just be the culprit. These glutinous insects love to feast on fresh young plants and can chew through ...

Like the related snails (slugs are indeed shell-less snails, but some retain a vestigial shell on or under their skin), slugs have two pairs of feelers, tentaclelike 'eye'-stalks which project ...

In our last article ("Gardening Undercover," March 13), we suggested ways to protect your vegetable garden from slugs, snails ...

While snails have shells to help protect their skin from drying out, slugs must find other ways to retain their moisture. In dry conditions, slugs insulate themselves in dirt and leaves until ...