Posted on 06/21/2023 11:36:02 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Huge invasive pest can eat its way through stucco and street signs, puncture tires, and even cause meningitis The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announced on Tuesday that a swath of Broward County would be placed under quarantine The department will spray a pesticide it says is safe for crops but will make the invasive giant African land snails susceptible to dehydration
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I don’t think Frenchmen would be up to the task. You’re gonna need Cajons for this.
Salt?
For a time , I had these parts invading my tropical property, years ago.I used to hunt them with pellet pistols. Good fun! Somehow they disappeared. Haven’t seen a one in years . Very odd.
’ pests’
They look delicious.
Bees, and Snails, and Teenz oh my
The pestilent results are pernicious where ever afriekka is interjected .
The petulance, , just the nature of the beast
Nattering nabobs of nabobs nattering is naturally nattering with nature.
If you’ve never tried it, pour salt on a slug. They hate that.
Did you hear about the high school football player drinking beer and found a slug and ate it.
He’s a vegetable now, seriously.
They taste like hospital food:
Giant African land snails can carry dangerous parasites.
The rat lungworm (Angiostrongylus cantonensis) uses snails to complete its life cycle. The adult worms both live and reproduce inside common rat species, such as black, brown, and cotton rats. The worm’s larvae end up in the host mammal’s poop and are eventually excreted. The feces are then eaten by scavenging snails. If one of the worm-carrying snails is later eaten by a rodent, the cycle continues.
A 2015 survey of 50 L. fulica snails collected in Miami found that 18 of them harbored rat lungworms. The worms can cause eosinophilic meningitis in humans who eat the snails, either as part of a meal or by accidentally ingesting parts of the snails on grocery store produce. The illness can be fatal.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/653017/giant-african-land-snail-facts
Whoa.
Woof. I’ll stick with fried clams from New England.
Waiting for Biden to declare a health emergency and require the snails to where masks....as well as humans in the quarantine area.
If Fauci opens his mouth, throw a snail in it.
Too late: the giant snails have already taken over the US Capitol.
My son would ask, “What are we going to name him?”
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