What is the growth process of a snail? Basic characteristics of a snail

Snails have a very wide range of food foraging, and their staple foods include various vegetables, weeds, melon and fruit peels, crop leaves, stems, buds, flowers, and juicy fruits. They are also sensitive to the environment and are most afraid of direct sunlight. They don’t know how to protect themselves. Have you also discovered that these tiny snails are very smart and cute?

Contents of this article

1. What is the growth process of a snail?

2. Basic characteristics of snails

3. What dead leaves do snails eat?

How does a snail grow?

There are four stages in a snail's life

1. Incubation period: refers to the period from the time the eggs are laid by the snail to the time they hatch.

2. Juvenile snail stage: Juvenile snail refers to the small snail stage within 30 days after hatching.

3. Adult stage: The snails are between 1 month and 6 months old. The 5-month-old snails are called adult stage. It is the period between the young snails and the seed snails. The snails are growing and developing at this stage, and it is also a period of reproductive growth.

4. Breeding snail stage: snails that have grown for more than 6 months.

Basic characteristics of snails

1. The appearance of snails: The whole body of a snail includes shells, heads, necks, shell membranes, feet, internal organs, capsules, etc. It has a spiral shell on its back. Its shapes are varied and of different sizes, including pagoda-shaped, gyro-shaped, cone-shaped, spherical, pipe-shaped, etc. At present, the domestically cultivated snails, such as the hooded snail, scattered snail, bright snail, brown cloud agate snail, and white jade snail, all have their own unique appearances.

2. Physiological habits of snails: White jade snails like to live in a dark, humid, loose and humus-rich environment. They hide during the day and come out at night. They are most afraid of direct sunlight.

What dead leaves do snails eat?

1. Snails’ favorite thing is dead cucumber leaves.

2. Snail is not the name of a biological classification, but generally refers to all terrestrial species of gastropoda.

3. Most snails like to eat taro, breadfruit, fig, tanaria, wedelia, wedelia double-flowered, vegetables, mushroom bulbs, mushrooms, melon and fruit tree leaves, fungi, calamus, dense-flowered ramie, yellow rattan, Taiwan green pod leaves, hibiscus, dead branches, rotten leaves, grapes, grape leaves, melon leaves, pakchoy, lettuce, melon fruits and vegetables, sweet potatoes, egg shells, etc., and they will not eat any plants that have even a little bit of pesticides or have been sprayed with herbicides.