Native to South America, apple snails pose human health risks. Adults carry rat lungworm, which can infect humans if eaten raw or under cooked, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission says. N.C.

A visitor from Florida that has taken up residence in Terrebonne Parish could be good news in Louisiana’s fight against the invasive apple snail. At least three pairs of limpkins, a wading bird found ...

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 ...

Recent discoveries at Wakulla Springs have birders and environmentalists buzzing with excitement. A limpkin returned. The bird with an iconic-jungle-like cry did not just stay for a day but was ...

You won’t find limpkins in "Birds of Louisiana" field guides right now — but you may soon. The limpkin (Aramus guarauna), also called carrao, courlan and crying bird, is a large wading bird related to ...

MOBILE, Ala. -- Amazonian apple snails and their nuclear pink eggs were easy to find on Three Mile Creek Tuesday, bad news given that state biologists applied a copper-sulfate snail poison to the ...

MOBILE, Alabama-- The snails are winning. The Amazonian apple snails first discovered in Mobile's Langan Park in 2008 have steadily expanded their range downstream in Three Mile Creek, ever closer to ...