However, it is illegal for US restaurants or food firms to import fresh snails, whether dead or alive, as they are considered to be a pest or invasive species. And the three main edible species ...

They are found in salt water, fresh water, and on land. The brown garden snail is edible and found on menus as escargot.

Normally we give you a couple of hundred words to soften you up, but let’s get straight into the bad jokes this week: ‘If I ran a sea freight business delivering edible snails, my main ...

I don’t belong to the Akan tribe, and I rarely eat snails, but I’m pleased to provide edible gastropods to my fellow citizens. The words “gastropod” and “gastronomy,” in fact ...

‘I love snails and slugs! I just think they’re fascinating,’ says Jon Ablett, our Curator of Molluscs. ‘They’re an unnoticed part of our biodiversity, so it’s my mission to make people look around and ...

Five kilograms (11 pounds) of large Asian snails were confiscated from two Thai workers entering Israel, in a swoop by Agriculture Ministry inspectors at Ben Gurion Airport. The workers told ...

An expedition to a volcanically active ridge in the Pacific off South America has revealed worms, snails, giant tubeworms and other strange creatures lurking below steamy underwater hot springs.

For plants in the ground, we found the biological control Nemaslug is effective against slugs, but not snails. There is one chemical option: pellets containing ferric phosphate. Ferric phosphate-based ...

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology has been awarded a whopping Sh 127 million to facilitate production of medicine from snails bred in the institution. This money will be used ...

The French now eat more than 8,000 tons of snails in a year. The cultivation and shipping of these succulent creatures are a triumph over their delicate adjustment to their environment ...

Read our full commerce guidelines here. By now you must have heard about snail mucin skincare products? Well I have to admit I thought it had to be some kind of joke! Surely slathering actual ...