BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The invasive apple snail is popping up all over south Louisiana, causing problems for crawfish and their producers. “We’ve had a number of crawfish ponds in the past three ...

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 ...

Everything about our next invasive species could probably be summed up with the word "gross." From its huge size (as large as a softball) to the thousands of slimy pink egg cases it leaves behind, to ...

An invasion of apple snail could be "disastrous" for rice production and food security in Kenya as well as other rice growing regions across Africa, according to a new CABI-led study published in the ...

If readers are experimenting with cooking and eating apple snails, they aren't reporting how it's going. After Gibson's Tim Rochel announced in 2008 that the fist-sized mollusks were becoming common ...

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 ...