Backyard Snails
Which predator you choose will depend on your environment so talk to your local agricultural extension office or gardening club for recommendations for biological controls that will work in your area.
Backyard snails. Some scientists think this snail is cornu aspersum cantareus. You will likely find snails around your garden as this offers them plenty of fresh plants and leaves to eat. If you don t want your garden plants to end up dead but you don t want to use tons of harsh chemicals you need to learn a few all natural methods for controlling snails in the garden. The garden snail helix aspersa is a terrestrial gastropod mollusk and one of the best known species in the world it is so common that it is one of the most proliferated terrestrial mollusks.
Garden snails are kissing cousins to the nefarious slug that also terrorizes gardens. Most terrestrial snails are herbivorous but others are omnivorous and some even carnivorous. Both can be found on french dinner plates. Snails and slugs can even consume an entire plant in one night.
The common garden snail helix aspersa is a close relative of france s commercially harvested helix pomatia. Garden snails chew through leaves on plants which reduces productivity. Many birds will eat them including your backyard chickens but the widespread use of snail pellets has made many potential predators learn to avoid eating them. These include frogs toads turtles birds possums and snakes.
Finding a snail after a rainstorm is pretty easy. While they do require feeding and watering at least every other day they are easy to take care of if you understand what they need. The best place to find them would be in your garden if you have one or in a place where a lot of vegetation is growing. Garden snails are one of the easiest and cheapest pets to locate since they are often present in large numbers eating the plants in your yard.
The helix aspersa is also known as european brown garden snail but its scientific is under discussion. It was classified under the name helix aspersa for over two centuries but the. Each species has different eating habits depending on their size age habitat and individual nutritional requirements. Cryptomphalus aspersus known by the common name garden snail is a species of land snail it is a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family helicidae which includes some of the most familiar land snails of all terrestrial molluscs this species may well be the most widely known.
Snails are herbivores which mean they eat plants and flowers. The introduced common garden snail has lived in australia for over 100 years. It is possible to keep. They live everywhere and the lack of natural predators means their numbers have exploded.