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Slugs and Snails
Characterized by their shell and slow movement, snails are a common garden dweller and even a delicacy in some countries. Snails without shells are called slugs.
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What is the difference between snails and worms?
The difference is that snails have a shell that is attached to their body and use it for shelter and protection against predators! While worms are just long and slimy and they live mostly under the soil! Snails adapt to the environment very differently to worms!
Are garden snails poisonous for humans to eat?
Yes, snails may be toxic to a dog. Fresh water snails can carry rickettsial organism. The symptoms last around 5-7 days. They include fever, vomiting, diarrhea (usually bloody or bright yellow in color), and some other not so pleasant symptoms. If left untreated it has up to a 90% mortality rate. This same condition can be picked up from eating raw fish, especially salmon.
You can find slugs in decaying wood, moist dark areas, and water slugs can be found in creaks, ponds, oceans, rivers ect. It all depends on the kind of slug or snail you want.
They are nocturnal but you will often find them after a good rainfall. They dislike the cold and hibernate during winter. They cover their bodies with a thin layer of mucus which prevents them from drying out. Sometimes snails are also able to hibernate in the summer to survive if they are faced with a severe drought. They live off of the stored up fat during this time of year. They have to live in places where there is a lot of calcium in the soil otherwise their shells become weak and break easily. Garden Snails can go as fast as 65 feet an hour and are the fastest species of snail in the world. They have no ears and cannot hear so they rely on their sense of touch to interact with each other. Snails can live as short as 5 years or as long as 25 years. In captivity they can live longer due to their needs always being met. They can be found in parks and gardens. Snails also inhabit woods, hedgerows and dunes. Snails are very strong and can lift up to 10 times their own body weight in a vertical position. They are able to adapt to a variety of living conditions and they don't require large amounts of food.
What are the predators of slugs?
Gastropods are a group of mollusks that include the freshwater and marine snails, terrestrial snails, slugs, and limpets. Predators of slugs and terrestrial snails are turtles, ground beetles, owls, snakes, seagulls, and foxes. Some predators of sea snails are crabs and fish.
It is more a "Sucking" then eating.
Fence and post your plants to hold the pods off the ground :
then collect coffee grounds : surround your plants and garden areas with the coffee grounds : the nitrogen in the coffee is good for the soil and the caffeine in the coffee is deadly to many creatures, like slugs.
Watermelon rinds are a warfare method , like the coffee , you get the goodies before you use the end result to arm your garden. However, the watermelon rinds do not kill the critters and might attract more unwanted ones.
but the method is to put them out at night and pick them up in the morning,.
the other ideal is "English Clay"; Cinders, sawdust, Sand.Seaweed is not only a good soil amendment for the garden, it's a natural repellent for slugs. Mulch with seaweed around the base of plants or perimeter of bed
Slugs aren't known to attack anything. The only thing a slug might a attack is a juicy leaf.
In case you'll decide to do so, here are some good tips.. and may i suggest a name?? i think "shbi" is a nice one :) http://www.sutree.com/how-to/6807/How-to-Care-for-Giant-African-Land-Snails Yael, SuTree.com - Learn Anything. On Video. Yes but don´t let them get out or they will be hard to find and eventually die in your house. Feed them fresh lettuce wash it and give it to them with drops of water on it. Never ever give them anything salty or they will die. No salad dressing, nothing but fresh greens. I have kept slugs and snails as pets.....a large jar fishbowl with screen across the top or an aquarium work great and the can even be held an petted but make sure your hands are clean and not sweaty the salt and whatnot can burn their skin. They will often "nibble" at your skin and it feels much like a tiny tiny kitten tougue. This is because they are actually grating away dead skin with the rasp that they chew with, it is a bony plate with around 27.000 little teeth on it.
Why do slug communicate with other slugs?
Slugs can communicate through tentacles and chemicals. Snails have two tentacles on their heads which they use to communicate with each other through touch. Slugs leave behind a chemical trail which can be processed by other slugs.
The average garden snail moves at a pace of 100 ft an hour.
What is the adult weight of a snail?
The garden snails I take care of are really light. I think that one of them is like as heavy as a copper penny. Their shells are really light, I think it's their flesh that gives them their tiny weight. Maybe they even weigh less than a penny. This is only my interpretation of how much they weigh when I hold them, or let them crawl all over my hand.
What is the 7 level classification of a snail?
Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
Phylum: Molluska (Mollusk)
Class: Gastropoda (Gastropods)
Order: Stylommatophora (Terrestrial Snails and Slugs)
Where does the snails egg come from?
They create their shell during development, while inside the egg. SO they have an "immature" shell at hatching.
What is the difference between a slug and a worm?
a slug is a small but fat lump of fat and a worm is a long and thing that you find in your garden and is usually pink/red but you can find them green and somtimes a dark yellow.
Probably not, for a snail needs its eyestalks for vision, and a land snail needs its feelers to sense the world around it.
No, rabbits do not eat ladybugs.
Specifically, rabbits are herbivores. This means that their food sources are plants. But it is possible that an insect such as a ladybug may be on a leaf of something and thereby serve as an inadvertent food source outside the plant kingdom.
What does a garden slug look like?
A gray and yellow-striped tube with a black-and-blue head topped by two sideward-leaning tentacles describes a garden slug. The shell-less gastropod in question (Gastropoda class) measures anywhere from 0.25 to 2.0-plus inches (0.64 to 5.0-plus centimeters) in length. It uses file-like mouthparts when feeding and will be recognized by the silvery, mucous-y, slimy trail in its wake.
Snails change their eating habits according to where they live. Snails normally eat plants and fruit but have been know to eat a worm if that's all their is.
A slug's 'nose' is the first set of antenna that are closest to the mouth.
Snails eat by rasping at a surface with their specialized mouth-part called a Radula. It is possible for them to try to rasp at your hand if you're holding them; the feeling is similar to a cat licking you.
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What is the biggest type of slug in the world?
the biggest slug in the whole entire world is the lummox cinereoniger
I don't really no, I have seen a massive one once so basically they get massive!
How long a garden snail is depends on the type of snail. The common garden snail is generally less than 1 inch in length but some species can be as large as 3 inches in length.
