South Florida is under attack ... 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.

In 1967, the French Polynesian government allowed the giant African land snail to be imported and used as a human food source on islands of the South Pacific, including Tahiti. Some of the snails ...

The giant African land snail is an intermediate host for parasites ... the Caribbean, eastern South America and Asia. Among parasitic diseases, schistosomiasis is second only to malaria, occurring ...

Giant African land snails are hermaphrodites ... and Togolese, in addition to South Americans and Asians. Additionally, she said, “When you target the right market and customers, snail farming ...

But global conservation efforts have helped the snails make a comeback within the islands in the South Pacific ... French authorities allowed African giant land snails to be brought to the ...

As they develop rapidly and produce large numbers of offspring, the giant African land snail is recognized as a serious pest organism affecting agriculture, natural ecosystems, commerce ...

Somsak heads a dynamic team of researchers that has been active on many aspects of land snail research ... position with a snail fauna ranging from Indo-Himalayan to the north and west to Malaysian in ...

The snails are still small but they will grow to be palm-sized A family of giant African land snails have been moved into the library at Tavistock College. Teachers said they hoped the new ...

The issue was raised yesterday at a Joint Select Committee (JSC) meeting on Land and Physical Infrastructure, which held an enquiry into the occurrence of locust and Giant African Snail ...

Australia’s rabbits are a famous example, but perhaps less well-known are the Giant African land snails (Lissachatina fulica) that were introduced to South Pacific islands in the mid-20th century.