RAINDEAR wrote:

http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/misc/g...ing_snails.htm

the 'rosy' predator snails are supposed to devour the escargot-type snails
and when their food source runs out, they're supposed to just die. there is
a company in cali which sells them (can't remember the company, sorry....CRS
has been extremely bad since massive humidity hit the northeast), but google
it. use the search words: snails eating snails that is where i got the
above website!!!!

The decollate snail (Rumina decollata) described on the same Web
page is considered superior by commercial citrus growers for
controlling the brown snail (Helix aspersa). The latter is a
serious orchard pest in citrus groves, girdling and killing trees
by eating the bark.

The release of decollate snails is restricted to certain southern
California counties. They are prohibited in northern California
because the prey on endangered native snails.

The brown snail is NOT a native, having been intentionally imported
some 150 years ago as a source of escargot.

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