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The Snail Lover's Society

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  • GALSnails are a lot pickier re their diet than garden snails @rowlandscastle444
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Our snails would die outside in the winter.
    they’re fussy little wot-nots when it comes to food,  everything has to be prepared,  then like cats,  they go off that and want something else. 
    Spent ages crushing those eggs. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    My half-arsed quest to find all the snail species in the UK has ticked up by one. I found several Cochlicella acuta in the boot of my car after leaving beach litter in there overnight. They're a sand dune species and quite small so it was a lucky find for me.
    I also took a photo of a garden snail lit by my UV torch.


    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    His sensors are showing up as a strong colour.
    Will you keep the little one?   It’s like a mini version of ours. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    The little ones were returned to the beach. I do wonder how snails live in such dry, salty places though.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    edited August 2023
    I always wondered that @wild edges  copied from google
    ” The reason why garden snails die when they come into contact with salt, but sea snails do not die in saltwater, has to do with the way their bodies regulate water and salt, a process known as osmoregulation.” 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    Well, they do @wild edges  I have them in my garden.  They live under the ground so no use lifting stones or objects to find them.  And there are families of them grouped together.  Here are 2 - are they the same species as your beach stowaways?
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I’ve never seen that type here. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • I was about to ask if you were making a return trip to the beach  ;)  Beautiful UV photo - as Lyn says it really stands out.

  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    tui34 said:
    Well, they do @wild edges  I have them in my garden.  They live under the ground so no use lifting stones or objects to find them.  And there are families of them grouped together.  Here are 2 - are they the same species as your beach stowaways?
    I think the pointy ones might be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decollate_snail

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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