What do you do for a living? Retired but was Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Sheffield University.

It is a remarkable fact that our understanding of the habitats of terrestrial molluscs has advanced little since Boycott’s (1934) exemplary account.

17th September 2011: Derbyshire Shell Show, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
 
29th October 2011, 9am to 5pm:
 Shell Show

I thank everyone who has submitted records during 2010. Some 138,400 records from Britain and Ireland have now been digitised.

We used to have a typical London garden, with a small rockery just outside the patio doors, where lived and lurked many snails (Cornu aspersum).

Thora Whitehead's poetic plea for enlightenment about slugs demands a response. So, here are some thoughts, verse-by-verse.

There’ll be many who will call me ‘mug’
For I find I cannot love the slug!
These humble molluscs – slimy creatures