Florida city under quarantine after deadly giant African snail detected

nypost ^ | 6/20/2023 | katherine donleavy

[bitt]

hey’re not escargot-ing anywhere.

State officials placed part of a Florida city under quarantine Tuesday as they race to eradicate the invasive, parasite-carrying invasive giant African snail.

The 3.5-mile section of Miramar in Broward County — located just 11 miles west of Hollywood — will be covered in a metaldehyde-based molluscicide to exterminate the insects after a giant African snail was found in the area earlier this month.

Residents will be able to move out of the treatment area freely but are prevented from moving any plant-based supplies that could harbor the mammoth mollusk’s eggs.

“Under the quarantine, it is unlawful to move a giant African land snail or a regulated article, including, but not limited to, plants, plant parts, plants in soil, soil, yard waste, debris, compost or building materials, within, through or from the defined quarantine area without a compliance agreement,” the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announced.

[MagnoliaB]

Lots of insects pollinate like butterflies, wasps, beetles, moths, bumblebees and many more.

[mabarker1]

The same damned ones that are in Hawaii !!!

[paint_your_wagon]

Paraphrasing Reagan: “It’s not that she’s wrong. It’s that she knows so much that just isn’t so.”

[ronnie raygun]

my thoughts exactly

[tlozo]

the honeybee is an invasive species brought to the America's by European settlers.

A type of honey bee existed in North America, but died off about 5 million years ago.

Fourteen-Million-Year-Old Honey Bee Discovered in America

Scientists figure that the bee, and honey bee, have been around for about 100 million years – a spin off from the wasp. Up until 2009, it was well documented that honey bees never existed in North America until the Europeans brought them over in the early 1600’s to compete with the native bee population that did not produce honey. That changed when Professor Michael Engle, a paleontologist/entomologist at the University of Kansas, and of course we must mention his hard-working team, discovered and named the fossilized remains of a female worker bee. It was unearthed in paper shale from Stewart Valley Basin, west-central Nevada. A rough dating of the find places it around mid-Miocene geological epoch (about 14 million years ago). Accordingly, apis nearctica, the newly applied name for the find, is definitely a honey bee having hairy eyes, a barbed stinger, and honey bee wing patterns. This particular bee no longer exists. Researchers say it is most similar to the extinct species apis armbrusteri zennex from the Miocene epoch (23 to 5 million years ago) of southwestern Germany. Engle figures that this particular bee became extinct some time ago stating that “honey bees were likely truly absent” from North American during the Pliocene (5.3 to 2.6 million years ago) and Pleistocene (2.6 million to 11,700 years) epochs. So basically, North America remained without honey for about five million years until a ship from England put into port at Jamestown, Virginia. Engle published his research in the May 7, 2009 edition of the Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. The original fossilized female worker bee can be found at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

https://revolutionarywarjournal.com/honey-bees-in-early-america-white-mans-flies-fact-and-fiction/

[Candor7]

This is what open borders will get you. Dump a truck load on the White Hut lawn.

[bert]

They migrated on slave luggage.

[BigFreakinToad]

Anyone ever read or listen to the Florida Man series? Add another to the list of invasive species.

[teeman8r]

“Walk for your lives!!”

excellent.

well done.

wish i said that

[gundog]

I imagine that all of the other snails in Florida are vectors, as well. If you don’t make a habit of eating them, cooked or raw, you’re probably OK. I think the potential for ag destruction is the big deal with these.

Remember this guy?

[GingisK]

Thanks for the monitor shower! ;-D

[Bob434]

In Hawaii, supposedly the snails were crawling across produce like lettuce and greens etc and causing people to get sick. I know we get a ton of slugs in our garden, but not sure if they carry anything deadly or not. I doubt it as we’ve not suffered anything from eating produce e from it.

[AAABEST]

And fwiw to the people who say we're all gonna die because bees are dying, the honeybee is an invasive species brought to the America's by European settlers.

Thank you BD. I LOVE honey bees and honey, and they actually can be good pollinators, but tired of idiots saying we're all going to die whenever their populations decline.

My fruit trees get loaded with pollinators here in Florida - but practually zero honey bees.

[Bob434]

Yep I do remember that article- I think I probsbly,commented in it too. But yeah, the dude paid the ultimate price- I’m lucky to have survived my younger years.

[JackFromTexas]

That’s just WRONG!

This is about Snails, not Slugs!

[Honest Nigerian]

The snails are a metaphor. A metaphor for illegal aliens. And the DeepState swamp-dwellers.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I read decades ago that when this movie was being made the local natives were terrified of this fake snail because the real snails on the island were causing health problems in the tribe.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Florida seems to be a dumping ground for exotic pets when people tire of them. Boas, snails, monkeys, Piranha Fish, snakehead fish....

[JimRed]

Can you sautee them in olive oil, wine and garlic?

[SuperLuminal]

First the snails, next the pythons...
Florida needs to deport all foreigners...