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These Snails Are As Big As A Person's Head
These Snails Are As Big As A Person's Head
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Published on 8/31/2018 at 5:31 PM
This is not a drill.
These massive snails You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. — and a few years ago, they took over Florida.
Meet the giant African land snail, a species native to Kenya and Tanzania. As adults, they can grow over 8 inches in length, nearly as big as a person’s face or hand.
Due to the pet trade, these gentle herbivores have made their way into humid tropics of China, India and even the southern United States over the past 80 years, and they’re now considered one of the world’s most invasive “pests,” since they have an insatiable hunger for crops and gardens.
This, of course, is due to humans releasing their hungry pet snails into the wild. The giant snails don’t have natural predators in places like South Florida — so, until recently, populations there have boomed out of control since the 1960s.
The snails were thought to be eradicated in 1975 after a $1 million extermination project — but then, in 2011, the quirky snails returned again in full force.
Public service announcements from the Florida Department of Agriculture urged residents to report snail sightings immediately: "This is not science fiction," the notices You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.. "This is real."
These snails eat around 500 different types of plants, so “almost everything” was fair game for them in Miami, Daniel Benjamin, public information officer for the Florida Department of Agriculture’s Division of Plant Industry, told The Dodo.
Published on 8/31/2018 at 5:31 PM
This is not a drill.
These massive snails You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. — and a few years ago, they took over Florida.
Meet the giant African land snail, a species native to Kenya and Tanzania. As adults, they can grow over 8 inches in length, nearly as big as a person’s face or hand.
Due to the pet trade, these gentle herbivores have made their way into humid tropics of China, India and even the southern United States over the past 80 years, and they’re now considered one of the world’s most invasive “pests,” since they have an insatiable hunger for crops and gardens.
This, of course, is due to humans releasing their hungry pet snails into the wild. The giant snails don’t have natural predators in places like South Florida — so, until recently, populations there have boomed out of control since the 1960s.
The snails were thought to be eradicated in 1975 after a $1 million extermination project — but then, in 2011, the quirky snails returned again in full force.
Public service announcements from the Florida Department of Agriculture urged residents to report snail sightings immediately: "This is not science fiction," the notices You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.. "This is real."
These snails eat around 500 different types of plants, so “almost everything” was fair game for them in Miami, Daniel Benjamin, public information officer for the Florida Department of Agriculture’s Division of Plant Industry, told The Dodo.
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