Snails may not always be the first creatures that come to mind when thinking of natural beauty, but these shelled gastropods ...

Golden apple snails are also a string vector of various parasites, including one that causes human eosinophilic meningitis, according to the Invasive Species Compendium.

Golden apple snails become sexually mature when they reach 2.5 cm in size, and females lay between 200 and 600 bright-orange eggs. PHOTO COURTESY OF BIO-IMAGE NET ...

We investigated the effects of an exotic snail, the golden apple snail (Pomacea canaliculata) on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in tropical wetland ecosystems. This large snail (up to 80-mm ...

A week after planting, newly sown rice seedlings in Barangay Lanas, Mangaldan, Pangasinan were submerged by floods, leaving ...

“First we collect golden apple snails to soak in a pot with urine, and later we pour it into the rice field with about 20 centimetres of water” as a natural fertilizer, he said. To contact the ...

The snails have heavy golden-brown shells and, true to their name, usually grow to the size of an apple (2 to 4 inches) or larger (up to 6 inches across). The snails are popular in the aquarium ...

PUTRAJAYA, Feb 17 (Bernama) -- A total of 10,125 packs of golden apple snail (siput gondang emas) poison containing the active ingredient fentin acetate which is banned in the country, was seized in a ...

Chapulines / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 This cute little guy is an amphibious variety of apple snail. Not surprisingly, golden apple snails are popular as aquarium pets in large part because ...

Don’t look now, but old newspapers are good materials in catching those destructive golden apple snails (GAS) in rice fields. Old newspapers are a good GAS attractant, according to a study ...

A recipe on how to prepare the golden apple snail (GAS) is expected to help counterbalance the depredations in rice fields caused by this snail species since it was introduced in the country in ...