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What do snails eat (a complete list of snail breeding varieties)

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What food do snails eat

1. Most snails like to eat taro, breadfruit, fig, thorn tree, wedelia, wedelia biflora, vegetables, mushroom bulbs, mushrooms, fruit and vegetable leaves, fungi, calamus, dense ramie, yellow rattan, Taiwan green pod leaves, yellow hibiscus, dead branches, rotten leaves, grapes, grape leaves, melon leaves, Chinese cabbage, lettuce, melon fruits and vegetables, sweet potatoes, eggshells, etc., and they will not eat any plants with a little pesticide or sprayed with herbicides. Sometimes, when there is nothing to eat, snails will eat their own kind or paper.

2. Small snails love to eat "moss", mushrooms, the surface membrane of leaves, young leaves, new shoots, and root ends. Some also eat flowers, buds, dead branches, and suck the body fluids of dead animals. Some specialize in eating the surface membrane of leaves.

3. Some carnivorous snails introduced from foreign countries will eat the corpses of snails and slugs, and suck the body fluids of dead animals.

Snail growth cycle

2. Juvenile snail stage: Juvenile snail refers to the period from the time when the snail hatches to the time when the snail hatches within 30 days.

3. Adult snail stage: The snails are between 1 month and 6 months old. The 5-month-old snails are called adult snails, which is between the young snails and the seed snails. At this stage, the snails are growing and developing (individual expansion) and are also reproductive growth (growth and development of sexual organs).

4. Snail breeding period: Snail breeding period refers to snails that have grown for more than 6 months.

Snail breeding varieties

2. Garden snail: Also known as scattered snail, snail, camel snail, etc., it is native to France and the United Kingdom in central and western Europe. It usually lives in gardens or bushes, so it is called "garden snail". Adult snails are slightly smaller, about 3 cm in diameter, with a thin shell that is yellowish brown with 4 purple-brown bands. The shell surface is covered with many small yellowish brown spots. Due to the degeneration of the species and the small size of the individual, the economic benefits of breeding are poor.

3. Agate snail: Agate snail is the largest snail in the world. It is also known as African giant snail, dew snail, Dongfeng snail, vegetable snail, flower snail, etc. It is native to Malagasy Island in East Africa and later spread throughout the tropical region. Because the meat of agate snails is delicious, it is very popular among European and American bosses, making the African giant snail the staple snail in the world today. This snail is a species that is more adapted to growing under natural conditions in my country.

4. White Jade Snail: White Jade Snail is also known as Brown Cloud Agate Snail. It is native to eastern Africa, but is now widely distributed in humid and hot areas in Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Americas. It mainly lives in vegetable fields, farmlands, orchards, parks, rubber plantations, weeds, lush trees, lush crops, dark and humid environments, humus soil, dead grass piles, caves, branches, fallen leaves and stones.

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