The California garden snail, <em>Helix aspersa</em>: elegant, tasty, and destructive. You’ll probably see them after a rainy evening, making their way up from ...

Frank Arredondo has seen them, romping down his La Mesa street as if they owned it: coyotes. “I sit out on the front porch, and I smoke and drink coffee. Usually it’s early, before sunup.” Arredondo, ...

Much of the $10 million the U.S. citrus industry spends annually on pest control goes toward fighting the Helix aspersa, a common orchard variety of snail. The Helix feeds indiscriminately on leaves, ...

They're ba-a-a-ck! Recent rains have Bay Area gardeners once again picking Helix aspersa, the brown garden snail, off our artichoke plants, crunching them underfoot in the driveway, drowning them in ...

The European Grapevine Snail and its cousin Helix aspersa have become naturalized in North America. All snails and slugs are edible and offer the advantage of being very easy to catch. But all wild ...

IN connexion with a cytological problem now being investigated, an attempt has been made to culture snail tissue. It is well known that snails are able to repair extensive injuries under what must be ...