Florida has waged two eradication wars against the Giant African land snail, a voracious eater that can wreak havoc on the state's agricultural and forestry lands. And they're back, having been ...

Andrew Desjardins teaches us about African land snails & giant African millipedes.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Two giant African snails were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists at the Louisville Port of Entry on May 18. According to a news release, the ...

We came to Ivory Coast looking for stories… and somehow ended up running a giant African land snail nursery in a hotel ...

DETROIT -- Customs officers at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport made an unusual -- and potentially dangerous -- discovery in a passenger's luggage: Six giant African snails. The snails, which were ...

An invasive species of mollusk with no natural predators has forced the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDCAS) to issue a quarantine order for a community in Broward County, ...

Most snails move slow, but these illicit gastropods crossed the Atlantic at hundreds of miles per hour. Customs officials at Detroit Metropolitan Airport recently found six living snails inside a ...

A quarantine zone has popped up for select neighborhoods throughout Broward County this week after sightings of the invasive giant African land snails, known to be one of the most dangerous species.

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