Snails in a desert climate?

lucky1 · 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!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/southslope/5790076301/" title="DSC04751 by edible_plum, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3539/579 ... 180484.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSC04751"></a>

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

Barb

TerdalFarm · 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

lucky1 · 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.

Barb