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Showing posts with label snails. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snails. Show all posts

Thursday, August 18, 2016

Snail

You haven't heard me tell much about snails yet, which I will amend now. There are a lot of nice big snails here, even though it is an arid area.

The snails here are very very silly. Do you think they hide in the shade in a dark humid spot? No. They sit (stick) in the full sun. En the sun does bake here, as I have mentioned before. (Sunny, 33ยบ today.)

If you detach them, because you need them to move, you can see they protect themselves by sealing the opening of the shell with a thin layer of chalky material. That way they don't dry out. Isn't that beautiful?

And when they die their shell becomes all white. I'll paint one someday as a water colour.