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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

The above average rainfall this year has been a bonanza for the garden snail (Cornu aspersum, they were classified under the name Helix aspersa). More and more readers of this column have commented ...

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 ...

Snails are well-known for their lack of speed and their ability to upset gardeners. But there is growing scientific interest in the familiar sticky trail of slime they leave behind — and the medicinal ...