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 ...

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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.

Slugs can wreck gardens in January as they can greatly damage plants already vulnerable due to the cold, but there is an easy way to stop them only using items around your home.

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 ...

And as I’ve (thankfully) solved my slug problem, I knew that there was only one culprit: caterpillars. So, I’ve made it my ...

‘Not all of them are going to eat your lettuces, though some certainly are! They’re part of our wonderful food webs,’ he adds. Jon suggests planting things that snails and slugs don’t eat or that you ...

Weighing less than a nickel, a shrew can eat 7 pounds of slugs and insects in a year!

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