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Identify land snail
I am on the mid north coast, north of Newcastle, on acreage. In the vege
garden I have found some snails that I cannot identify. They look nothing like a normal garden snail but more like a small periwinkle. They are a spiral pointed at one end and thicker at the other, about 8mm end-to-end and 5mm in diameter at the widest. The colour is a nondescript grey-brown. They are mostly on the larger leafed veges such as collards and don't seem to hide away obsessively like normal garden snails. I have trawled through google images etc but cannot find them. I lack any means to post a photo. Can anybody indentify them or suggest where to look for information? David |
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Identify land snail
"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message ... I am on the mid north coast, north of Newcastle, on acreage. In the vege garden I have found some snails that I cannot identify. They look nothing like a normal garden snail but more like a small periwinkle. They are a spiral pointed at one end and thicker at the other, about 8mm end-to-end and 5mm in diameter at the widest. The colour is a nondescript grey-brown. They are mostly on the larger leafed veges such as collards and don't seem to hide away obsessively like normal garden snails. I have trawled through google images etc but cannot find them. I lack any means to post a photo. Can anybody indentify them or suggest where to look for information? David Try Cochlicella barbara or C. acuta http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...Images&gbv= 2 |
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"Loosecanon" wrote in message news:46cdb185$0$27824$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader- Try Cochlicella barbara or C. acuta http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...Images&gbv= 2 Thanks. It looks like they are in fact some species of cochlicella. Given their rapid multplication I may be looking for a moluscicide, the iron-based ones look much more specific and safe than the old metaldehyde. Do you have any experience of such? David |
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Identify land snail
"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message ... "Loosecanon" wrote in message news:46cdb185$0$27824$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader- Try Cochlicella barbara or C. acuta http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...Images&gbv= 2 Thanks. It looks like they are in fact some species of cochlicella. Given their rapid multplication I may be looking for a moluscicide, the iron-based ones look much more specific and safe than the old metaldehyde. Do you have any experience of such? David I have used the methadehyde in the past. I seem to remember they kill snails and slugs and break down in the soil back to carbon and hydrogen. Have also been known to collect the snails and throw them into water which has salt added to it. Most recently I bait my rat traps with snail pellets as they seem to like them. Hence I put pellets out only to find none when I check and no snail shells in site. Cheers Richard |
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David,
You could try good old copper spray (copper oxychloride) on the plants themselves just to drive them off the plants down to where they can find the pellets Geoff "Loosecanon" wrote in message ... "David Hare-Scott" wrote in message ... "Loosecanon" wrote in message news:46cdb185$0$27824$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader- Try Cochlicella barbara or C. acuta http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...Images&gbv= 2 Thanks. It looks like they are in fact some species of cochlicella. Given their rapid multplication I may be looking for a moluscicide, the iron-based ones look much more specific and safe than the old metaldehyde. Do you have any experience of such? David I have used the methadehyde in the past. I seem to remember they kill snails and slugs and break down in the soil back to carbon and hydrogen. Have also been known to collect the snails and throw them into water which has salt added to it. Most recently I bait my rat traps with snail pellets as they seem to like them. Hence I put pellets out only to find none when I check and no snail shells in site. Cheers Richard |
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