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Q: What do you call the summer sleep of desert snails and other creatures in excessively warm or dry climates?
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Do gastropods have predators?

Gastropods (literally stomach foot), or slugs and snails, are eaten by such creatures as thrushes (which smash them onto rocks). Frogs are one of the main predators for slugs and snails, but beetles, hedgehogs and shrews will all eat them - to name just a few.


Does a snail have tiny stinging threads?

Normal garden snails do not. However, there are some creatures in the phylum Mollusca that may. Remember to put on gloves and do your research before attempting to pick up anything.


Are snails detrivores?

there various types of snails water snail, omnivore snails ,and snails that only eats leaves it all depends on the name of the type of snail


How big is a snails brain?

snails do not have a spinal cord which makes them an invertebrate and thus concludes the snails have no brain.


Is a snail a carnivores herbivores or omnivores?

Garden snails, the most common type, are herbivores. Some snails, like the wolf snails, will eat other snails, so they are carnivores.

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Are there snails in the desert?

Yes, snails are found in the desert but only emerge after rains in the summer.


Can Snails Get AIDS?

yes, poor creatures


Which creatures have no legs?

worms, slugs, snails snakes


How common are snails?

It depends on the environment. Snails are very common in moist, damp areas, yet sparse in hot dry climates.


What animals do not have bone?

Octopuses, hermit crabs, squid, slugs, snails, and sharks are a few creatures that do not have bones (creatures that do not have bones are called 'invertebrates').


What kind of sea creatures are Detrivores?

snails, shrimp, and crabs


What are the black creatures in my fish tank They are like miniature snails because they have a suction pad on the bottom?

Likely either snails or flatworms.


Can you find garden snails if it hasn't rained?

Where ever there is moisture you will find garden snails. After it rains there is water everywhere, so that is the reason that you find garden snails easily when is has rained... These creatures have more water in them. Hence if they dehydrate they will die. That is why when we put some salt on such creatures they die instantly...


Where does the snails live?

Live like other small creatures.


What do bones not do?

Octopuses, hermit crabs, squid, slugs, snails, and sharks are a few creatures that do not have bones (creatures that do not have bones are called 'invertebrates').


Do snails eat creatures?

Most don't but some of them do. There is a most useful African snail which preys on other snails and doesn't eat your vegetable crops.


What animals are found in the desert biome?

camels, jackrabbits, snakes, snails,