Snails lay a lot of eggs. If you’ve found some eggs in your yard, you’ll want to know if these belong to snails or not. So what do snail eggs look like? Garden snails lay clusters of white- or cream-colored eggs that are semi-transparent. The eggs are quite round or...
If you’ve found snails in your grass, you might be wondering what attracted them to your grass in the first place… You have snails in your grass because the conditions are right for snails to thrive there: the grass is watered often and the area stays damp; there are...
Has something been eating your mail or your seed packets? Well, it might be snails! Snails eat paper and paper products, like cardboard, paper towels, tissue paper, magazines, newspapers, seed packets, sticky notes, and mail. They eat paper for fiber and calcium. The...
You’ve probably heard that salt can be a very effective snail killer. But why do snails die from salt? Snails die in minutes when enough salt is poured on them because salt dries them out. Salt mixes with the slime on a snail’s body and pulls water out of the body...
Snails have a foot for a body. With such an unusual physique and a need to get rid of waste after eating food, how do snails poop? Snails poop from their anus, which sits inside their shell towards the front of their body (on the same side as their head). When a snail...
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