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 ...

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 ...

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 ...