The Molluscs: an everyday story of snail folk.

  When the temperature drops in autumn, a wild garden snail will enter a state of dormancy to protect itself. Cornu aspersum can survive the...

 I  have just posted accurate scientific information about the hibernation - more correctly winter dormancy - of Cornu aspersum but I am sli...

Berowne gave his mind to the feast: He would order ahead. At the least There'd be gem lettuce, bedded  On courgettes, finely shredded, A...

  Having said that snails love reading, i must admit that mine prefer to be read to and they claim this is the most historically authentic w...

  If you keep pet snails and look after them well, they will repay your T.L.C. by mating: incessantly, ubiquitously and productively. The po...

When we last saw the poor snail, Amanda, she was on the edge of total despair about her unrequited love for charismatic Berowne. She has no ...

Having set up my vivariums and welcomed my new snails to their new, damp, 5* living, I gave much thought on what to feed them. Although they...