Gardening in England - Snails migrate

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Snails migrate

Steve Newport

2007-05-10, 1:25 pm

Something rather odd I noticed last year. May be that its common
knowledge, but not to me.

We have a garden path running up the centre of our garden and on the
one side is the vegetable patch, on the other, the garden proper.

What I found was, if you walked up the path in the early morning you
would see the snails going across the path from the garden to the
vegetable patch side whilst in the evening they went the other way.

There were the odd ones that went the other way around but they were
by far the minority.

Seems to me snails must have a regular "sleeping place".

Klara

2007-05-11, 1:25 pm

In message <r5i643pivvc0hb3s5joqkt0i7rkkg7gn14@4ax.com>, Steve Newport
<steven@newport47.fsnet.co.uk> writes
>Something rather odd I noticed last year. May be that its common
>knowledge, but not to me.
>
>We have a garden path running up the centre of our garden and on the
>one side is the vegetable patch, on the other, the garden proper.
>
>What I found was, if you walked up the path in the early morning you
>would see the snails going across the path from the garden to the
>vegetable patch side whilst in the evening they went the other way.
>
>There were the odd ones that went the other way around but they were
>by far the minority.
>
>Seems to me snails must have a regular "sleeping place".

I am sure they have such habits (supposedly they follow their own slime
trail back). They also 'home' to some extent: I collected lots one year,
put a dab of white paint on them, then let them go about 100 yards
behind our house. In a week or so several of them were back!

--
Klara, Gatwick basin

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