How is it that you plant vegetables and these slimy little creatures won’t let them be? You plant, you tend, and when the vegetables start flourishing, these wild snails show up like they own the place.
They don’t ask, they don’t care if you need the vegetables. Anything green is food to them - pumpkin leaves, spinach, cocoyam, curry, bitter leaf, potato, scent leaf, name it. They eat them up and even leave their waste right there. Honestly, they're just pain in the... garden 😂
Look at these ones feasting on the cocoyam leaves.
After rain, they are everywhere, having a field day on the crops and multiplying, nothing else.
You can also find them on damp walls, like this one.
Well, they're actually edible. People do harvest them to eat. Heard they're very nutritious. I just pick them and throw away in a nearby fallow land, but to what end is it? You'll still find more the next time you visit the garden.
If only they could be reared in a snailry, that would have been much better. That'd help reduce their spread, although they multiply easily.
I guess there's no stopping them since they're a part of the ecosystem, even though they're destroying my vegetables.
Do you have these types of snails at your environment too?
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