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Leaf grazers: a snail

02 Thursday Nov 2023

Posted by sconzani in molluscs

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When I first spotted this Holly leaf, I thought some new-to-me leafminer had been busy devouring it.

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Then I turned the leaf over. The culprit, as you can see, was this little snail. And a little more leaf-turning revealed several more small snails, on various shrubs and trees, not something I expected to see. I assumed snails mostly lived closer to the ground but obviously not.

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