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Hup! Has anyone else seen these snails around? We've only had them in the garden for a few years. I initially mistook them for young helix pomatias, but they are not.
They're about the same size as your average grove snail/white lipped snail (those common yellow and reddish striped garden snails).
My theory is they've wandered in from the nearby bog or forest, but they're having a good time being garden snails now. Black and speckled and pretty.
We're in northern Europe by the way, I think that matters for identification. Also, they will gnaw dead skin off your fingers, I don't recommend holding them for too long.
They're about the same size as your average grove snail/white lipped snail (those common yellow and reddish striped garden snails).
My theory is they've wandered in from the nearby bog or forest, but they're having a good time being garden snails now. Black and speckled and pretty.
We're in northern Europe by the way, I think that matters for identification. Also, they will gnaw dead skin off your fingers, I don't recommend holding them for too long.
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Wow, that does not have a danish wiki page at all. I think I DID find out about it before, but hard to compare cause other images had light skin and brown shells.
Kratsnegl, apparently!
Looks like they like it much more moist than most garden variety snails, that makes sense then that they've really been coming into the garden the past couple of years.
Thank youuu!
Kratsnegl, apparently!
Looks like they like it much more moist than most garden variety snails, that makes sense then that they've really been coming into the garden the past couple of years.
Thank youuu!
I feel like I saw them a lot bigger. We have roman snails/escargots as well, but they are usually much more light coloured than this, with grey skin and speckled brown or grey shells, so I used to mistake these for babby ones of those.
The real crop and flower eaters here are sadly the invasive red slugs. They're a real plague in some parts of Denmark, and climate change (more rain, less frost) isn't helping.
And poisoning them is bad business, cause then you kill the hedgehogs that eat them, that's already an endangered species here. Birds eat the snails too, get going birdies!
The real crop and flower eaters here are sadly the invasive red slugs. They're a real plague in some parts of Denmark, and climate change (more rain, less frost) isn't helping.
And poisoning them is bad business, cause then you kill the hedgehogs that eat them, that's already an endangered species here. Birds eat the snails too, get going birdies!
You need these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limax.....Feeding_habits
Both for their carnivorous nature, as I have been told they eat the red invaders, as well as their bizarre and cool mating habits! I want to witness it with my own eyes, once!
Both for their carnivorous nature, as I have been told they eat the red invaders, as well as their bizarre and cool mating habits! I want to witness it with my own eyes, once!
Our resident forest slugs mate that way too. It's quite fancy!
But I was told the same about the roman snails, they're not keeping the slugs down at all. Leopard snails might just become the new pests... I haven't heard much about them here.
The red slugs do crossbreed with our orange and black slugs.
But I was told the same about the roman snails, they're not keeping the slugs down at all. Leopard snails might just become the new pests... I haven't heard much about them here.
The red slugs do crossbreed with our orange and black slugs.
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