Deadly giant snail found in Houston

nbcnews.com ^ | 05-08-2013 | By Andrew Rafferty, Staff Writer,

[deport]

If they could get this type hog killing success spread out over a few months then maybe the problem could at least be checked for a while.

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Ted Nugent killed 455 wild hogs in a recent hunting expedition in Texas. "I did it for Bill Maher and all those other animal-rights freaks out there," Nugent said, according to Mlive.com. He allegedly donated the meat to the homeless.

[Red Badger]

Gonna need a bigger pot........

[al_c]

[Red Badger]

Pretty fast with a jet pack......

[thackney]

On average, Texas kills over 2,000 feral hogs a day. At that rate, in 5 years, the population will only double instead of triple.

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If left unchecked, the state’s feral hog tally — which was averaged at roughly 2.6 million animals — will more than triple in five years.

Using landowner surveys in 2010 from 139 of Texas’ 254 counties, the report found that the estimated reduction on feral hogs statewide from trapping, hunting and other methods was 753,646, or 29 percent of the population. Even at that same harvest rate, the report states that the population would still double in five years.

I read an article published by the state of Oregon Fish & Game department, and it said that a harvest rate of 70% is necessary to maintain a level population of feral hogs. I guess it's safe to say that pigs breed like rabbits.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The Deadly Giant Snail that Ate Houston.

I think I saw that as a kid as part of a drive-in double feature along with Vampire Amazon Women of Planet X.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Report: ".... and no one seems to know how it got there...."

Response: "Our Diversity is Our Strength!"

[thackney]

“If a feral hog sow produces a dozen piglets, 13 survive.”

http://lubbockonline.com/outdoors/2013-03-31/leschper-new-report-highlights-states-feral-hog-problem#.UYpzWaKKJ8H

[thackney]

a harvest rate of 70% is necessary to maintain a level population of feral hogs

That would be ~ 5 thousand a day in Texas.

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That would be ~ 5 thousand a day in Texas.

Well, the hunters need to get crackin'!

[deport]

Adding another story to this thread that basically says there was an identification error regarding the snail found in Houston..... Anyway both stories will be on this thread, right or wrong.

What do you do if you see a giant snail?

By Tim Monzingo and Kathy Huber
Published 9:06 am, Friday, May 10, 2013

A case of mistaken identity sparked a false alarm this week when word spread that the giant African snail - a voracious mollusk that poses a potential health threat to humans - had come to Texas.

Turns out the big snail found in a Houston garden is beneficial, not bad. It was a rosy wolf snail, a predator of snails that devour garden plants, said Michael Warriner, invertebrate biologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

The good snail's story, like that of the bad snail's, seems like science fiction. But it comes with a happy ending.

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Read more: Beaumont Enterprise

[Hot Tabasco]

Wow, look at that S Car go.......!