Hi @Fran IOM - good to hear from you! I can't believe where the time has got to either! I found a couple of small snails in the greenhouse this week - I carefully evicted them to the drystone wall - but other than that it's just been a couple of slugs chewing on the emerging tulips. Snail-spotting season will soon be upon us however, especially once we have trays of seedlings on the go!
@B3 - hopefully that principle wouldn't work with slugs . Besides SLS members have to try and step over molluscs, not on them
Please can I become a member of the snail lover’s society? I am a huge fan. It can take me ages to walk the dog on a damp evening moving them out of harms way 😂.
As a child I planted a garden of weeds in the bottom of a goldfish bowl and stocked it with garden critters. I was entranced by watching the ripples in the underside of a snail as it crawled up the glass.
A Bermuda snail, photographed in 2007. Not sure if it is the same as the one in the news though, maybe the slightly smaller Poecilozonites circumfirmatus instead.
I made my kid a "Snail and the Whale" cake for his birthday and I thought the SLS would appreciate the snail. Keen eyed society members may spot that the cake is slightly smaller than was possibly expected and I will plead adverse circumstances rather than point the finger at people who promised to bake a sponge cake rather than hurriedly buying one at the last minute.
This is the tail of the humpback whale
He held it out of the starlit sea
and said to the snail
"come sail with me"
I've also been getting interested in the smaller snails in the garden. These aren't the ravenous garden snails or the beautiful stripey snails but the tiny brown-shelled snails that lurk in dark corners and come out at night to browse on detritus. They're often forgotten and I think of them as the civilian casualties in the chemical and organic snail wars. Nematodes don't care if your snails are friends or foes remember.
These are vague IDs because there's a lot of snails that all look very similar but this is some kind of moss snail
and a glass snail of some kind
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
That's gorgeous - the cake I mean, not the snail Those wee snails are quite cute though, and so is @steephill's, but I'm struggling to find any admiration for the ones I keep uncovering. They're starting to take the p*ss now. I had an old florist's pot over the water scarecrow yesterday as I was trundling back and forth. I lifted it off, and there was a mahoosive one sitting on top of it. I did laugh though
I often find really tiny ones in among the phormiums.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Well my quest to find all the snail species in my garden has hit two snags. One is that I can't find a good/easy ID guide and the other is that they keep running away before I can go get a camera.
Anyway I think these are girdled snails. The keel ridge and white line are distinctive. I like the tiny spiral in the centre of the shell (the protoconch apparently).
I can't find the ID for this one. It has distinct growth rings, 4 whorls, a black body and a deep ubilicus. I forgot to sniff it to check for garlic breath
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Anyone remember my Brian 🐌 , well, he started off belonging to my daughter, then I took him on, she’s just bought two more, I told her I’ll enjoy those in a couple of years. Bless her😀
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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I found a couple of small snails in the greenhouse this week - I carefully evicted them to the drystone wall - but other than that it's just been a couple of slugs chewing on the emerging tulips.
Snail-spotting season will soon be upon us however, especially once we have trays of seedlings on the go!
@B3 - hopefully that principle wouldn't work with slugs
Those wee snails are quite cute though, and so is @steephill's, but I'm struggling to find any admiration for the ones I keep uncovering.
They're starting to take the p*ss now. I had an old florist's pot over the water scarecrow yesterday as I was trundling back and forth. I lifted it off, and there was a mahoosive one sitting on top of it.
I did laugh though
I often find really tiny ones in among the phormiums.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...