Snails in a desert climate?

Wild creatures from around the desert gardens...

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Snails in a desert climate?

Post by lucky1 » Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:43 am

Crazy to find these here!

Found these clinging to a rock shaded by a bush that we had to relocate!

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Never saw these outside of Vancouver before this...maybe they've heard it's wetter and wetter in the North Okanagan :lol: :lol:

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Post by TerdalFarm » Thu Jun 02, 2011 12:09 pm

Barb,
they're beautiful.
The shells protect them from drying out, so snails are better adapted to arid weather than are slugs. --Erik

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Post by lucky1 » Thu Jun 02, 2011 1:14 pm

The camera didn't catch the beautiful colors on the shells.
Almost iridescent.
And they're so different from one another.

Happy to say we definitely do NOT have slugs here...yuk. :twisted:

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