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Holey snail

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  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    That one looks old, but i do find quite a lot of fresh ones, especially by the screen which is tied to a mixed but mainly hawthorn hedge. I also have found some live snails which look like this image
  • star gaze lilystar gaze lily Posts: 17,638

    Eeeeekkkk!! Hope its not the beetle, I've seen snail shells with holes in, in my garden.

  • Hmmm, google seems to have no answers for land dwelling molluscs. In the sea there are plenty of carnivorous snails who do this sort of thing to other species!

  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    Not yet image
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,616

    I was just going to say that Steve. Carnivorous Molluscs who bore holes in grazing molluscs are quite common in a marine environment. I've never seen it on land though. 

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,616

    The holes that carnivorous snails bore are indeed very round, and made by  rasping.

  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    So i could be a slug then??? Fasinating but what a horrible way to go! image
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,131

    That makes the Leopard slug even more of a possibility. 


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





  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    Well that explains why i dont have much sulg/ snail damage! They are eating each other ........ ewwww! image



    Who would have thought a slug? Didnt even enter my mind image
  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    No waaay, ive got lots of devils coachmen, thought they would be far too small, still a nasty way to go tho!

    Makes you glad your not a snail image
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