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
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!
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.
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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!
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.
The holes that carnivorous snails bore are indeed very round, and made by rasping.
That makes the Leopard slug even more of a possibility.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Who would have thought a slug? Didnt even enter my mind
Makes you glad your not a snail