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I assume it's a snail. Clinging to my garden wall. Never seen anything like
it before. http://www.blackberrymoon.co.uk/wotami/wotami -- Pete C London UK |
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In message , Pete C
writes I assume it's a snail. Clinging to my garden wall. Never seen anything like it before. http://www.blackberrymoon.co.uk/wotami/wotami Capaea nemoralis, or something similar. Famous for having many, substrate-related, colour morphs. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
In message , Pete C writes I assume it's a snail. Clinging to my garden wall. Never seen anything like it before. http://www.blackberrymoon.co.uk/wotami/wotami Capaea nemoralis, or something similar. Famous for having many, substrate-related, colour morphs. Thanks Stuart. I Googled for that name. People actually keep them as pets! -- Pete C London UK |
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In message , Pete C
writes Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote: In message , Pete C writes I assume it's a snail. Clinging to my garden wall. Never seen anything like it before. http://www.blackberrymoon.co.uk/wotami/wotami Capaea nemoralis, or something similar. Famous for having many, substrate-related, colour morphs. Thanks Stuart. I Googled for that name. People actually keep them as pets! I had to Google for the name as well; I remembered the nemoralis bit, but not the genus, and googling was faster than figuring out where in my library to find a mention. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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"Pete C" wrote in message ... Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote: In message , Pete C writes I assume it's a snail. Clinging to my garden wall. Never seen anything like it before. http://www.blackberrymoon.co.uk/wotami/wotami Capaea nemoralis, or something similar. Famous for having many, substrate-related, colour morphs. Thanks Stuart. I Googled for that name. People actually keep them as pets! -- We've got them on the allotment. They're much tougher to crack than a normal snail. Steve |
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The message
from Charlie Pridham contains these words: I have always known them as "Banded snails" and unlike the big brown jobs they seem to live above ground in the foliage of plants and are a right pain with clematis! MTAAAW. Just fed a dozen or so to the thrushes this afternoon while pruning back the C. horizontalis which grows through 90º (into C. verticalis?) up the front elevation of me cottij. Right pain in the cotoneaster innit. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote in message ... In message , Pete C writes I assume it's a snail. Clinging to my garden wall. Never seen anything like it before. http://www.blackberrymoon.co.uk/wotami/wotami Capaea nemoralis, or something similar. Famous for having many, substrate-related, colour morphs. My guess would be cepaea hortentis. Very common in my garden. Most folks only see those big brown/green ones. |
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Christina Websell wrote:
"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote in message ... In message , Pete C writes I assume it's a snail. Clinging to my garden wall. Never seen anything like it before. http://www.blackberrymoon.co.uk/wotami/wotami Capaea nemoralis, or something similar. Famous for having many, substrate-related, colour morphs. My guess would be cepaea hortentis. Very common in my garden. Most folks only see those big brown/green ones. As far as I undestand it, the difference between nemoralis and hortentis is the colour of the lip. (brown or white) Too dark for me to go look now. -- Pete C London UK |
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"Pete C" wrote in message ... Christina Websell wrote: "Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote in message ... In message , Pete C writes I assume it's a snail. Clinging to my garden wall. Never seen anything like it before. http://www.blackberrymoon.co.uk/wotami/wotami Capaea nemoralis, or something similar. Famous for having many, substrate-related, colour morphs. My guess would be cepaea hortentis. Very common in my garden. Most folks only see those big brown/green ones. As far as I undestand it, the difference between nemoralis and hortentis is the colour of the lip. (brown or white) Too dark for me to go look now. Oh, please go out and look ;- ) Joking of course. Nemoralis, in my experience has fewer bands on the shell and your photo fits exactly hortentis for me. Other views may vary and I never mind being proved wrong. I am always up for learning from those who know better, but for me, it's hortentis. |
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Christina Websell wrote:
snippy Oh, please go out and look ;- ) Joking of course. Nemoralis, in my experience has fewer bands on the shell and your photo fits exactly hortentis for me. Other views may vary and I never mind being proved wrong. I am always up for learning from those who know better, but for me, it's hortentis. I'm curious.........how do you and others know so much about snails? I mean, this is a gardening group.......snails are a PITA. My original post was made in the hope that someone may just know, but I never expected this amount of knowledge. -- Pete C London UK |
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