SNAIL PRO TIPS

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• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Last line really needs a citation.

  Where I live they are plague. If you have them in your garden they will eat absolutely everything.

  I love snails, and I have had them as pets sometimes. They are cute and fun. But most common species found in cities are not endangered afaik, quite the opposite.

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  • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’re pretty easy to get rid of, or at least cull. Leave some beer out and they’ll all drown in it. Snails adore beer.

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or just pick them up without tapping their shells first. I read somewhere that that is a good way to kill them.

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Me too, little snails.

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    • MoonRaven@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I am a snail.

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A useful fact to know if you’re playing Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist!

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  • FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Exactly, they are a massively invasive pest where I live

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  • taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My thought too. Snails in my area are an invasive species and there’s very little that can eat them. They serve no good purpose and compete with the native species, which actually are probably endangered.

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  • OozingPositron@feddit.cl ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cute and funny?

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• logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How do snails “maintain the wildlife balance in our gardens”?

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  • TheOctonaut@mander.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Birds eat the snails. Bird-eating Spiders eat the birds. Phorusrachids eat the bird-eating spiders.

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    • toast@retrolemmy.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This description of the food web seems a little dated. I haven’t seen bird-eating spider in years.

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    • logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      French people eat the snails. Acromantulas eat the French people.

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    • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Image

      Ancient Greek sure is a bitch to spell in English.

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• Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What vital work do they do, other than feeding birds?

  Eating my beans definitely isn’t!

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  • sobchak@programming.dev ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If your beans aren’t native to your area, I guess they’re bringing balance to your ecosystem.

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    • Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Huh, they originate from central America. TIL

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  These little guys are basically the only bugs I see in the shrubs and they are the reason all the shrubs are dying. They are not bringing balance. They are bringing destruction.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  the only time I ever interact with snails is when walking the dog late at night. and only by stepping on the poor bastards. they explode. guys just stay off the sidewalks, keep to the bushes ffs

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• ImpermeableMembrane@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I call BS on this snail tapping thing. I’ve seen it in meme form like this over and over again, but any time I’ve tried it (very snaily garden) it’s never actually helped in any way.

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Honestly, I don’t think I’ve even seen a snail in years. I mean I’m no gardener, and don’t necessarily go out of my way to look for little critters, but I live on the US Gulf Coast, and make a point to look out for little helpful harmless critters, so you’d figure I should see more than one a year…

  🤷

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• Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Here for the obligatory “I’d tap that” quip.

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• brap@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Works a treat for aquarium snails too. A gentle tappy tap tap and they just retract and fall off things.

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• fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why did the snail cross the road?

  Not clear. Let it cross the road first.

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