snails

[Safiya]

whats the point of them? what do they do? they just slither around and eat the plants.... do they do anything useful in return? Ive just been outside after it peed it down and there was dozens of em.... but more importantly, why can they sleep for years on end and we can't?

[Barmaid]

No idea, but my chickens love them!!!

[lankeela]

I love mine - I sit and watch them for hours. I only have two now, both rescues. GALS by the way.

[welshlibranr]

hate snails!................they eat my plants!...........hate them!..........

[RATTER15]

Does there need to be "a point" what is the point of humans, we are totally wrecking the world we live in, I think the snails are far more entitled to the world than we are.

I love them with a nice garlic butter!! :-)

[Barmaid]

Lankeela - you have rescue snails?!!!!!!

[RATTER15]

Barmaid, they were just slugs when she found them starving, she has given them a shell, they are now snails, Bless :-)

[welshlibranr]

Sorry would never rescue them!.......I hate them with a vengaence!.......they are just a pest!.......

[wildwood]

^ They probably think the same about humans.

Like most animals, snail were on earth many millions of years before we humans came along. There were far less in numbers until we started planted foreign plants and were an ideal intermediate media for intestinal worm eggs to spread.
Before you say it..... intestinal worms are an important evolutionary animal that burdens the slower and weak herbivores so they can be disposed of by predators thus ensuring the strongest ones to survive to breed on.

[Safiya]

omg ratter i couldnt eat a snail if you paid me!!! bleurrgghhhh ... there doesnt need to be a point....i just wondered if there was one....

rescue snails lankeela???? sorry for sounding like a parrot BM lol


*^ They probably think the same about humans. *

bet they hate me wildwood... i trod on one by accident and crushed it while pegging washing out :(

[RATTER15]

A while back, I walked out into my back garden and there was a huge snail!!! I picked it up and threw it as far as I could.

3 weeks later, I had a knock at my door, I answered the door and this snail looked up at me and said "was that absolutely necessary? ;-)

[Safiya]

lol ratter.....in my imagination it wiggled its thingys (sorry cant remember word im only getting antlers) while it said it....

the ones in my garden had really long ones wiggling all over.... ive never really examined a snail before but after watching for a couple of minutes i can see the reason kids are fascinated with them lol

[mungbeanz]

Antlers? Like a snail jackalope? I think they're called antennae aren't they?

[plautus]

They are lovely in garlic butter.

[tastymorsel]

Slugs are worse.Their sliminess just goes on and on.

[vivandorron]

I am amazed how they get into Hanging Baskets and under the Wheel Arches of my car; also under the lid of the gas BBQ.

They do taste nice with garlic butter but I don't think the ones in my garden are the edible kind. If they were I think I might serve them fully BBQ'd.

Ron.

[Safiya]

*antennae* thanks mung and lol!

they get under my bin lid ron no idea how they get in it, its always shut :s

[lankeela]

Giant African Land Snails - make superb pets. Snail walking down the high street and sees a slug. The slug says to the snail 'Big Issue, mate?'

[Safiya]

lol heard that before but funny...... and omg at the snails...... to me they are horrible...shudder

[vivandorron]

I dislike snails because of the damage which they do to my plants. However, I do get great enjoyment from seeing a Thrush hammering one to bits on a piece of rock in the garden and then having a juicy meal....Perhaps that is what they are for...To help feed the the birds, which I feel sure we all love.

Ron.

[boxtops]

Those thingies are its eyes on stalks! They are good for food - for us and for hedgehogs and for birds, and for next door's puppy.... the Romans brought huge food snails with them, you can still find them on the North downs.

On the same tack, what good is a hornet?