CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  Garden snails Cornu aspersa mating. One of the reasons garden snails are so successful is that they are hermaphrodite. In animals with se...

One of the stranger sights of autumn is the way in which snails seem to have a compulsion to climb to the top of hogweed Heracleum sphondyl...

Feeding trail left by the abrasive radula (tongue) of a garden snail inside a plastic bucket in our garden. The bucket had been filled with ...

If this post title sounds like a modern-day Aesop's fable well, in a way it is, because it does have a moral. Not one, but two morals....

The recent hot, dry spell has triggered some distinctive behaviour in snails that helps these moisture-loving molluscs survive long, dry p...

It's seed-sowing time again - a time of hope and expectation, tempered only by the knowledge that th...

A few days ago Ron Bloomquist published at interesting photo of a ‘hiccuping’ intermittent snail trail on his Walking Fort Bragg blog, and w...