From time to time, people will bring snail shells in to the UF/IFAS Extension Flagler County office in Bunnell for us to identify. One snail sometimes found in and around storm water swales is the non ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission warned on Tuesday of the discovery of apple snails recently found in live crawfish shipments from Louisiana. The giant invasive species has ...

Florida apple snails, Pomacea paludosa, are the nearly exclusive prey of the endangered snail kite, Rostrhamus sociabilis plumbeus. Declines in snail numbers have been documented in wetlands critical ...

MOORE HAVEN, Fla. — In Florida's Everglades, few species are more closely tied to the habitat's health than an endangered bird, the snail kite. The Everglade snail kite is a raptor, similar to a hawk, ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT/Edited News Release) - The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission needs the public’s help in preventing the spread of giant apple snails, an invasive aquatic species native to South ...

Sometimes this summer, as Bernard Husson has mowed the grass between his white picket fence and the stormwater pond in his neighborhood, he’s noticed something strange: Bubblegum-pink sacks of eggs ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - A non-native invasive species continues to be a growing problem in Southwest Louisiana. Apple snails can overpopulate and steal resources away from native species, consuming ...

Our country has for centuries had troubles with the introduction of creatures previously unknown here, which encountering ideal conditions and no natural enemies, destructively overran their new ...

Editor's note: This is an occasional series from the Louisiana Master Naturalists of Greater Baton Rouge. That bright pink “bubblegum” you may see clinging to cypress knees along the banks of bayous ...

A funny looking, escargot-eating, turkey-size bird with a strange sounding name has made its way into Arkansas and Oklahoma. It limps around in marshes and woodlands of the Natural State with ...