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Garden Snail

cornu aspersum

The Garden Snail is a slow-moving creature with a spiral shell that can be found in many gardens. They love to munch on leaves and flowers, making them an important part of the garden ecosystem!

Lebensraum: Gardens, parks, and moist areas with plenty of vegetation.

Aussehen

The Garden Snail has a distinctive globular, coiled shell, typically brownish-yellow with darker, broken spiral bands. Its soft, grey-brown body emerges with two pairs of retractable tentacles; the longer upper pair bears its eyes at the tips.

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Garden Snail
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Garden Snail

Kategorie

Invertebrate

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

A snail's 'tongue,' or radula, has thousands of tiny teeth for grating food.

Garden Snails are hermaphrodites, meaning each snail has both male and female reproductive organs!

They breathe through a tiny pore on their side, not through their mouth or nose!

They can repair their own shell if it gets damaged, growing new calcium to fix it.

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Slime Trail Navigator

Garden Snail can glide smoothly on a self-produced sticky mucus trail, allowing it to move over rough surfaces without injury.

Fähigkeit

Shell Fortress

Garden Snail can quickly pull its entire soft body into its sturdy, spiral shell for protection from predators or dryness.

Fähigkeit

Drought Sleeper

Garden Snail can seal its shell opening with a hardened mucus film to survive long periods of drought or extreme heat.

Maße und Details

Body Length Cm
3-5
Shell Diameter Cm
2.5-4
Weight G
5-20
Lifespan Years
2-5

Ernährung und Fütterung

They are plant-eaters, feasting on leaves, fruits, and decaying matter found in gardens.

Hauptnahrung

  • Leaves
  • Flowers
  • Fruits
  • Vegetables
  • Algae
  • Decaying plant matter

Nahrungssuche

  • Grazing

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

eaten by

Song Thrush

Turdus philomelos

Song Thrushes crack snail shells on stones to eat them.

eaten by

European Hedgehog

Erinaceus europaeus

Hedgehogs are important predators that eat many garden snails.

eats

Lettuce

Lactuca sativa

Garden snails commonly feed on lettuce leaves in gardens.

eaten by

Violet Ground Beetle

Carabus violaceus

Some ground beetles, like this one, prey on snails.

Merkmale

Auch bekannt als

Brown Garden SnailCommon SnailEuropean Garden Snail

Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

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Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das body Length Cm von Garden Snail?

3-5

Was ist der/die/das shell Diameter Cm von Garden Snail?

2.5-4

Wie viel wiegt Garden Snail?

5-20

Wie lange lebt Garden Snail?

2-5

Was frisst Garden Snail?

They are plant-eaters, feasting on leaves, fruits, and decaying matter found in gardens.

Wo findet man Garden Snail normalerweise?

Gardens, parks, and moist areas with plenty of vegetation.

Wie jagt Garden Snail?

Grazing

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