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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Me too, little snails.

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      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • MoonRaven@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I am a snail.

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      • snailboy@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Shit, you got that right.

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      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Exactly, they are a massively invasive pest where I live

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    • OozingPositron@feddit.cl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Cute and funny?

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  • logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • TheOctonaut@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • toast@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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        Ancient Greek sure is a bitch to spell in English.

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      • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Me: What’s a ‘phorusachid’?

        Wikipedia: Here you go!

        Me: … I regret everything.

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  • Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

    Eating my beans definitely isn’t!

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    • sobchak@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Huh, they originate from central America. TIL

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  • Cabslock@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

    Disco snails!

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    • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This was amazing

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  • ImpermeableMembrane@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ![]9https://i.imgflip.com/a1kewf.jpg)

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  • Dearth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Most common “garden snails” in north America are actually invasive and you absolutley should murder them ruthlessly to keep your garden alive

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dude is committing snail genocide via dog walking

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      • Zink@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        snail genocide

        Me and the (probably) other two lemmings who have ponds:

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        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.

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        snenocide

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      • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        two or three each summer… I’m a snailocidal maniac it’s true

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • tungsten5@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hedgehog is Doomslayer of snails?

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  • bytesonbike@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Was that not a slug?

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      • trk@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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???

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  • brap@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why did the snail cross the road?

    Not clear. Let it cross the road first.

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  • ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nice try immortal snail

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  • napkin2020@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t put them on your dry ass hand and let them be.

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