A giant African land snail Pest and Diseases Image Library, Bugwood.org under CC BY-NC 3.0 US (cropped) Editor’s Note, June 21, 2023: The invasive, eight-inch-long snails that have plagued ...

Officials in Florida are again battling a highly invasive, extraordinarily destructive giant snail species that also happens to be capable of spreading parasitic worms that invade human brains ...

Florida, you’ve got snail. A Giant African Land Snail spotted in the New Port Richey area of Pasco County, Florida. ... Snails and slugs don’t know better, though, and can, ...

The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services confirmed a giant African land snail was spotted June 23 in the New Port Richey area of Pasco County, about 38 miles north of Tampa.

Giant African land snails have shown up again in an area of Florida. Above, Mary Yong Cong, a Florida Department of Agriculture scientist, holds one of the snails in her Miami lab on July 17, ...

It is illegal to import or own Giant African land snails in the United States without a permit. There have been two previous eradication efforts in Florida, in 1975 and 2021.

FILE - A rout of giant African snails gather on Aug. 28, 2019, in a corner in Havana, Cuba. Invasive giant African land snails that can eat building plaster and stucco, consume hundreds of ...

Giant African snail is a major agricultural pest that may carry rat lungworm, a parasite that causes meningitis in humans & animals. Call 888-397-1517 ...

Florida officials have already eradicated the giant African snail twice. Now, the dangerous, invasive pest has been sighted again, causing one county to go into quarantine. “The giant African ...

Giant African snail is a major agricultural pest that may carry rat lungworm, a parasite that causes meningitis in humans & animals. Call 888-397-1517 ...

Giant Snails Take Over Part of Florida—Again. Officials issued a quarantine to control the invasive species, which devours vegetation, damages structures and can carry a parasite dangerous to humans ...