For those who have fruit trees, especially pears and cherries, now is the time that the dreaded pear and cherry slug starts to appear, as if out of nowhere. They can also attack plums, apricots ...

LOOK out for pear and cherry slugs on leaves of pear and cherry trees — both fruiting and ornamental types. These dark brown to black larvae look like slugs and are about a centimetre long.

Q:I need help with my cherry tree. This is my third summer in this house with a sunny yard in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood. When I moved in, the cherry was surrounded by loquat trees ...

Garden slugs can damage Evans cherries and spoil a long-awaited fall harvest, so Gerald Filipski recommends applying Vaseline to the base of cherry trees to keep the pests at bay.

State agriculture inspectors were on the lookout for aggressive yellow-jacket wasps hitchhiking on this year's shipment of Christmas trees but instead found slugs in 11 shipping containers ...

Jillian Logan: How to get rid of pear and cherry slugs THIS time of the year there are a couple of pests on fruit trees that can really give you some grief, writes JILLIAN LOGAN.

Garden slugs can damage Evans cherries and spoil a long-awaited fall harvest, so Gerald Filipski recommends applying Vaseline to the base of cherry trees to keep the pests at bay.Photo by John ...