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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.
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.





Kategorie
InvertebrateSeltenheit
Common
Gefahr
1/5 · Sehr gering
Snaps
Mach den ersten Snap!
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.
Garden Snail can glide smoothly on a self-produced sticky mucus trail, allowing it to move over rough surfaces without injury.
Garden Snail can quickly pull its entire soft body into its sturdy, spiral shell for protection from predators or dryness.
Garden Snail can seal its shell opening with a hardened mucus film to survive long periods of drought or extreme heat.
They are plant-eaters, feasting on leaves, fruits, and decaying matter found in gardens.
Turdus philomelos
Song Thrushes crack snail shells on stones to eat them.
Erinaceus europaeus
Hedgehogs are important predators that eat many garden snails.

Lactuca sativa
Garden snails commonly feed on lettuce leaves in gardens.

Carabus violaceus
Some ground beetles, like this one, prey on snails.
Einzelgänger leben den größten Teil ihres Lebens allein und interagieren mit Artgenossen nur zur Paarung oder zur Aufzucht der Jungen.
Farbenfroh beschreibt Organismen oder Objekte, die eine große Vielfalt an leuchtenden und deutlich erkennbaren Farben aufweisen.
Dieses Merkmal kennzeichnet Lebewesen, deren Ernährung vollständig oder hauptsächlich aus pflanzlichem Material besteht.
Beschreibt Organismen, die totes organisches Material abbauen und Nährstoffe in das Ökosystem zurückführen.
Tagaktive Tiere sind hauptsächlich bei Tageslicht aktiv und ruhen oder schlafen in der Regel nachts.
Gefahr
1/5 · Sehr gering
Noch keine besonderen Sicherheitshinweise.
3-5
2.5-4
5-20
2-5
They are plant-eaters, feasting on leaves, fruits, and decaying matter found in gardens.
Gardens, parks, and moist areas with plenty of vegetation.
Grazing
Zoome hinein, um Cluster aufzulösen und zu sehen, wo dieses Objekt fotografiert wurde.
Neueste Snaps erscheinen hier, wenn neue Beobachtungen hinzukommen.