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skipkey 25 minutes ago [-]
The salt river northeast of Phoenix has been infested with apple snails from central america - they get up to 6" or so. The forest service regularly runs events where people in kayaks and on paddle boards help clear that section of river of the clumps of eggs.
ButlerianJihad 22 minutes ago [-]
I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home; they're not much bigger than two meters!
This bastard is a fascinating one. I mean there are others, but this one is close to my heart.
codedokode 51 minutes ago [-]
Small snails look cute but 8-inch snail sounds a bit scary. Also how do they avoid being eaten by predators if they are slow and vulnerable?
Also I recently saw small slugs which were crawling on the sidewalk along with worms who get to the surface after rain. I wonder what those slugs were planning to do given its middle of October and temperature is merely 10°C (50F)?
pixl97 6 minutes ago [-]
Some things eat them like opossum and foxes, but the snails spread bad parasites so animals might learn to avoid them.
They can fertilize themselves so you only need one. And they lay 1600 or so eggs a year in batches of around 200.
They are breeding machines.
PeterHolzwarth 42 minutes ago [-]
"but 8-inch snail sounds a bit scary"
Avoid Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
ai_critic 2 hours ago [-]
> The snails, which actually grow to about eight inches in length, but can stretch—if nothing else, for headline-writing purposes—to nine inches, have worried Florida authorities since 1969.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/10/giant-african-sn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermatobia_hominis
This bastard is a fascinating one. I mean there are others, but this one is close to my heart.
Also I recently saw small slugs which were crawling on the sidewalk along with worms who get to the surface after rain. I wonder what those slugs were planning to do given its middle of October and temperature is merely 10°C (50F)?
They can fertilize themselves so you only need one. And they lay 1600 or so eggs a year in batches of around 200.
They are breeding machines.
Avoid Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
Delightfully self-aware.