Beyond its exterior diversity, this snail holds a unique reproductive strategy—while its habitat-mates lay eggs, L. saxatilis evolved live-bearing, making it an anomaly in the snail kingdom.
“Snails also multiply fast, for instance, they lay at least 100 to 400 eggs whose hatchability stands at 90 per cent,” says Waweru. The snails at the farm are fed on carrots, kales, cabbage ...
The golden apple snail lays pink eggs in clusters of between hundreds and up to a thousand, which is one reason why native species of apple snails, which lay eggs only in the hundreds, are being ...
SINGAPORE: The eggs of an invasive snail species recently spotted at Lower Seletar Reservoir have been removed by national water agency PUB. During its weekly maintenance of the water body on Oct ...