Snails and Slugs

Nature Photos

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Image 1. These snails are probably the vineyard snail, Cernuella virgata
or the Mediterranean snail, Theba pisana. In summer they appear
by the thousands in the fields in Haute-Provence, France,
and they climb on human structures as well as on plants.

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Image 5. The snails are also common on plants, especially thistles.

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Image 8. Snail tracks through a lichen crust on the surface of bark.

Image 9. A banana slug.

Image 10. Banana slugs like to eat mushrooms.