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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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In a snail what factor controls the thickness of the shell?
its diet and the amount of calcium it consumes.
Do mystery snails sleep upside down?
A Healthy snail doesn't flip upside down to sleep usually. so A unhealthy snail would sleep upside down.
The common garden snail has hyaluronic acid present in its slime.
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A snail and a worm are alike because they both squirm. There you go that is how a worm and a snail are alike.
Are giant African land snails in Florida?
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services has positively identified a population of Giant African land snails (GALS) in Miami-Dade County. The Giant African land snail is one of the most damaging snails in the world because they consume at least 500 different types of plants, can cause structural damage to plaster and stucco, and can carry a parasitic nematode that can lead to meningitis in humans.
The Giant African land snail, Achatina fulica, is one of the largest land snails in the world, growing up to eight inches in length and more than four inches in diameter. When full grown, the snail's brownish shell consists of seven to nine whorls (spirals) that cover at least half the length of its long and greatly swollen body whorl (see photo below).
Photo Credit: Andrew Derksen, Florida Cooperative Pest Survey Program
Each snail can live as long as nine years and contains both female and male reproductive organs. After a single mating session, each snail can produce 100 to 400 eggs. In a typical year, every mated adult lays about 1,200 eggs.
Achatina fulica is originally from East Africa and has established itself throughout the Indo-Pacific Basin, including the Hawaiian Islands. This pest has also been introduced into the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe with recent detections in Saint Lucia and Barbados.
The last reported outbreak and eradication of the Giant African land snail in Florida occurred in 1966 when a boy smuggled three Giant African land snails into Miami as pets. The boy's grandmother released the snails into her garden and seven years later, more than 18,000 snails were found costing more than $1 million and taking an additional 10 years to successfully eradicate this pest from Florida. This is the only known successful giant African land snail eradication program.
Giant African land snails are illegal to import into the United States without a permit and currently no permits have been issued.
Snails decompose bugs and turn the waste from the bugs into soil.
slugs and snails have a mandible structure called a radula. visit external links for more information on this structure.
What Bird or reptile eats snails leaving the shell whole?
Blue tongue Lizards eat snails with their shells. Although, a large population of blue-tongue lizards have died due too the consumption of snails, as the shell gets caught in the lizards throat and causes them too choke. c:
What causes slugs to be around the toilet?
I have no idea sorry it's never happend to me before. Maybe it found its way up a drain pipe :-)
