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Is it normal for snails to climb conifers?

deadendwaterfalldeadendwaterfall Posts: 70
in Wildlife gardening
I just spotted a tiny one climbing one of my conifers. 


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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    The yellow striped  ones climb everything and anything in my garden.  I often find them up Apple trees.  Until the hedgehogs get ladders I guess its a protective mechanism.
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    Or maybe the birds are farming them?
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    No matter how tall or how rough the surface, and that includes pebble dash walls, snails will scale it and slugs won’t exactly be reticent either. And that’s why those Facebook posts advocating grit, crushed egg shells or coffee grounds as deterrents are bunkum.
    Rutland, England
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Indeed @BenCotto. I think there's a lot of rubbish posted about what they won't cross or climb.
    I'm sure people think I'm lying when I talk about the stuff slugs will climb or crawl on or across. Snails aren't that different in that regard either. They're regularly on walls here, which has crushed shell render,  when they aren't busy eating everything in sight...
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    They certainly climb up house walls. Probably lost. Keep going. We're bound to get to a road sometime navigation system.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited September 2023
    Many snails and slugs feed on the algae that is found on the north side of many treetrunks … it is perfectly normal for them to climb. 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Why do snails try to get out of wheelie bins when there's plenty to eat and they don't mind the dark?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    Probably because they know they won't have long to live ?  
  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428
    Because there's no freshly planted seedlings in wheelie bins. 🐌🐌🐌🐌🌱

    Luxembourg
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Ive seen snails on the outside of our first floor walls, and snail trails across windows. 
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