There are numerous non-toxic, eco-friendly methods to control slugs and snails without harming beneficial insects, pets, or the environment. Slugs and snails are most active at night and thrive in ...

Master gardener Brenda Daly explores the options for controlling unwanted snails that prove to be pests in your garden.

Slugs and snails avoid wood ashes because of their alkalinity, so in the garden you can distribute wood ashes from the fireplace (but not charcoal, which may contain chemicals).

Barriers do not control snails or slugs by killing them; they only exclude them from an area. Make sure an area is free of snails and slugs before you enclose it in a copper barrier.

Decollate snails were imported from Mediterranean Europe in the 1970s as a biological control remedy for the pesky brown snail, native to the Mediterranean as well.

Problems with slugs and snails are beginning to appear throughout Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes.

For more information about snail control, or for directions on how to make your own wooden snail and slug trap, go to the University of California's pest management website at https://bit.ly/38wezq6.

Decollate snails were imported from Mediterranean Europe in the 1970s as a biological control remedy for the pesky brown snail, native to the Mediterranean as well.