Sam Ballard, who died at the age of 28, ate a slug at a friend's party for a dare while still a teenager. The consequences ...

Slugs can wreck gardens in January as they can greatly damage plants already vulnerable due to the cold, but there is an easy ...

Rugby player Sam Ballard was just 19 when he swallowed a slug at a friend's party. The decision would have devastating ...

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It was a dare that changed the trajectory of an teenager's life forever, which his now-adult friends are still reeling from.

Not all slugs feed on vegetation; some eat fungi and a small number are carnivorous, feeding on the likes of earthworms. For many people, the large, black Arion species of slug springs to mind ...

Years later, a pal who had attended the party recalled Sam's final four words before eating the slug, and issued an urgent warning to others. His friend Jimmy Galvin told The Project: "We were ...

Are slugs eating their way through your prize hostas and devastating your dahlias? Try not to worry. There are ways you can ...

including 30-odd native species of slugs, which eat algae, fungi, and tiny organisms that live on plants. Most of the slugs and snails that eat your garden are not native. They live where they are ...

When these sea slugs eat a certain type of algae they can photosynthesize their food from sunlight and oxygen, just like a plant, for about 10 days, Yusa said. What’s probably happening after ...