“They do breed quickly and their enclosures need sweeping of eggs, so anyone taking on a giant African land snail would need to humanely dispatch the eggs to prevent them from multiplying or you ...

Giant African land snails are among the most damaging snails ... A single giant African snail can produce about 1,200 eggs in a year. The July discovery by Houston border agents is one of an ...

No, this foreign invader is a snail. But what a snail it is. The giant African land snail "can grow as big as a rat and gnaw through stucco and plaster," says Reuters' Barbara Liston. Since the ...

African giant land snails can grow up to eight inches long ... They reproduce very quickly-one snail can lay up to 2,500 eggs a year. Their invasive presence devastated the islands' ecosystem.