Nice try immortal snail
Most common “garden snails” in north America are actually invasive and you absolutley should murder them ruthlessly to keep your garden alive
Why did the snail cross the road?
Not clear. Let it cross the road first.
the only time I ever interact with snails is when walking the dog late at night. and only by stepping on the poor bastards. they explode. guys just stay off the sidewalks, keep to the bushes ffs
Dude is committing snail genocide via dog walking
snail genocide
Me and the (probably) other two lemmings who have ponds:
Not that I kill them on purpose. But once the little pond snails make it in and multiply like crazy, there are a ton of them in any locations where the fish don’t have access to hoover them up. Just about any of my maintenance tasks will crush some of them plus a bunch of random larvae.
I guess that’s an inevitable downside to having a hobby where I care for a flourishing little ecosystem.
snenocide
two or three each summer… I’m a snailocidal maniac it’s true
Reminds me of that kid who ate a snail on a date and had brain damage and died in pain years later.
Fucking brutal.
Was that not a slug?
I’ve seen news stories for death by eating snails, slugs, and geckos. Also a butterfly that was crushed up and injected.
I did a lot of stupid things as a young bloke, but never did eating random animals from the garden seem like a good idea - let alone injecting one???
I once had a pet snail when I was a little kid. I found him outside one day and brought him inside. I put him on my shelf in my bedroom. I was very surprised the following morning to find that he had moved to the next shelf down. It kinda freaked me out so I put him back outside.
These little guys are basically the only bugs I see in the shrubs and they are the reason all the shrubs are dying. They are not bringing balance. They are bringing destruction.
Wildlife balance? I wouldn’t call eating everything I have planted in my garden wildlife balance. Luckily a hedgehog moved in into my garden 2 years ago, he makes sure there’s a balance in my garden again. But the snails are suffering, that’s for sure.
Hedgehog is Doomslayer of snails?
What vital work do they do, other than feeding birds?
Eating my beans definitely isn’t!
If your beans aren’t native to your area, I guess they’re bringing balance to your ecosystem.
Huh, they originate from central America. TIL
Don’t put them on your dry ass hand and let them be.
Last line really needs a citation.
Where I live they are plague. If you have them in your garden they will eat absolutely everything.
I love snails, and I have had them as pets sometimes. They are cute and fun. But most common species found in cities are not endangered afaik, quite the opposite.
Cute and funny?
My thought too. Snails in my area are an invasive species and there’s very little that can eat them. They serve no good purpose and compete with the native species, which actually are probably endangered.
They’re pretty easy to get rid of, or at least cull. Leave some beer out and they’ll all drown in it. Snails adore beer.
Or just pick them up without tapping their shells first. I read somewhere that that is a good way to kill them.
Shit, you got that right.
A useful fact to know if you’re playing Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist!
Me too, little snails.
I am a snail.
Exactly, they are a massively invasive pest where I live
Works a treat for aquarium snails too. A gentle tappy tap tap and they just retract and fall off things.
Be careful when tapping them, because:
Inside every snail shell is a tiny disco ball
Disco isn’t dead, instead, it turns out that it just got small
They’ve got the boogie oogie all up in their buggy bodies
These super freaks of nature love to seek out funky hobbies
This was amazing
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Here for the obligatory “I’d tap that” quip.
