• Cabslock@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Be careful when tapping them, because:

    Inside every snail shell is a tiny disco ball

    Disco isn’t dead, instead, it turns out that it just got small

    They’ve got the boogie oogie all up in their buggy bodies

    These super freaks of nature love to seek out funky hobbies

    Disco snails!

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    Most common “garden snails” in north America are actually invasive and you absolutley should murder them ruthlessly to keep your garden alive

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    Wildlife balance? I wouldn’t call eating everything I have planted in my garden wildlife balance. Luckily a hedgehog moved in into my garden 2 years ago, he makes sure there’s a balance in my garden again. But the snails are suffering, that’s for sure.

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    Reminds me of that kid who ate a snail on a date and had brain damage and died in pain years later.

    Fucking brutal.

  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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    the only time I ever interact with snails is when walking the dog late at night. and only by stepping on the poor bastards. they explode. guys just stay off the sidewalks, keep to the bushes ffs

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        snail genocide

        Me and the (probably) other two lemmings who have ponds:

        Not that I kill them on purpose. But once the little pond snails make it in and multiply like crazy, there are a ton of them in any locations where the fish don’t have access to hoover them up. Just about any of my maintenance tasks will crush some of them plus a bunch of random larvae.

        I guess that’s an inevitable downside to having a hobby where I care for a flourishing little ecosystem.

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    Honestly, I don’t think I’ve even seen a snail in years. I mean I’m no gardener, and don’t necessarily go out of my way to look for little critters, but I live on the US Gulf Coast, and make a point to look out for little helpful harmless critters, so you’d figure I should see more than one a year…

    🤷

  • ImpermeableMembrane@lemmy.world
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    I call BS on this snail tapping thing. I’ve seen it in meme form like this over and over again, but any time I’ve tried it (very snaily garden) it’s never actually helped in any way.

  • brap@lemmy.world
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    Works a treat for aquarium snails too. A gentle tappy tap tap and they just retract and fall off things.