How do snails “maintain the wildlife balance in our gardens”?
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Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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logicbomb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Birds eat the snails. Bird-eating Spiders eat the birds. Phorusrachids eat the bird-eating spiders.
logicbomb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
French people eat the snails. Acromantulas eat the French people.
toast@retrolemmy.com 2 months ago
This description of the food web seems a little dated. I haven’t seen bird-eating spider in years.
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Me: What’s a ‘phorusachid’?
Wikipedia: Here you go!
Me: … I regret everything.
Nighed@feddit.uk 2 months ago
What vital work do they do, other than feeding birds?
Eating my beans definitely isn’t!
sobchak@programming.dev 2 months ago
If your beans aren’t native to your area, I guess they’re bringing balance to your ecosystem.
Nighed@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Huh, they originate from central America. TIL
Cabslock@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Be careful when tapping them, because:
Inside every snail shell is a tiny disco ball
Disco isn’t dead, instead, it turns out that it just got small
They’ve got the boogie oogie all up in their buggy bodies
These super freaks of nature love to seek out funky hobbies
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This was amazing
ImpermeableMembrane@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months 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.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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Dearth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Most common “garden snails” in north America are actually invasive and you absolutley should murder them ruthlessly to keep your garden alive
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 months 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…
🤷
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 months 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
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Dude is committing snail genocide via dog walking
Zink@programming.dev 2 months ago
snail genocide
Me and the (probably) other two lemmings who have ponds:
Not that I kill them on purpose. But once the little pond snails make it in and multiply like crazy, there are a ton of them in any locations where the fish don’t have access to hoover them up. Just about any of my maintenance tasks will crush some of them plus a bunch of random larvae.
I guess that’s an inevitable downside to having a hobby where I care for a flourishing little ecosystem.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
snenocide
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
two or three each summer… I’m a snailocidal maniac it’s true
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Here for the obligatory “I’d tap that” quip.
tungsten5@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I once had a pet snail when I was a little kid. I found him outside one day and brought him inside. I put him on my shelf in my bedroom. I was very surprised the following morning to find that he had moved to the next shelf down. It kinda freaked me out so I put him back outside.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wildlife balance? I wouldn’t call eating everything I have planted in my garden wildlife balance. Luckily a hedgehog moved in into my garden 2 years ago, he makes sure there’s a balance in my garden again. But the snails are suffering, that’s for sure.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hedgehog is Doomslayer of snails?
bytesonbike@discuss.online 2 months ago
Reminds me of that kid who ate a snail on a date and had brain damage and died in pain years later.
Fucking brutal.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Was that not a slug?
trk@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I’ve seen news stories for death by eating snails, slugs, and geckos. Also a butterfly that was crushed up and injected.
I did a lot of stupid things as a young bloke, but never did eating random animals from the garden seem like a good idea - let alone injecting one???
brap@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Works a treat for aquarium snails too. A gentle tappy tap tap and they just retract and fall off things.
fubarx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why did the snail cross the road?
Not clear. Let it cross the road first.
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nice try immortal snail
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Don’t put them on your dry ass hand and let them be.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Me too, little snails.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Or just pick them up without tapping their shells first. I read somewhere that that is a good way to kill them.
MoonRaven@feddit.nl 2 months ago
I am a snail.
snailboy@leminal.space 2 months ago
Shit, you got that right.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
A useful fact to know if you’re playing Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist!
taiyang@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Exactly, they are a massively invasive pest where I live
OozingPositron@feddit.cl 2 months ago
Cute and funny?