Description: 50mm Leatherback left long, circuitous mucous trail overnight on dirt road when 1mm drizzle had fallen. Was she drunk? Lost? Enjoying minerals and/or organic detritus from the sand brought in from elsewhere (probably river-sand) used to dress the road surface?
Removed from road, placed in nearby shady vegetation and told, sternly, to stop playing in the traffic.
Description: The pale, conical, snail on the left, feeding with the darker, keeled E.carinifera (Keeled Bark Snail) and escaping a predatory Common Cannibal (Natalina cafra) in the last pic.
Description: Found tucked down deep inside, between Agapanthus leaves while searching for Agapanthus and/or Amaryllis borers ( Neuranethes spodopterodes & Brithys crini).
In garden, under plant pot. Subsequent to this photo, I have seen quite a few more elsewhere in the garden. I have a lot of other, vegetarian, snails in the garden.
Description: Very flat shell profile. Shell so shiny it looks varnished. Snail a quite blue grey colour.
In garden, under plant pot. Subsequent to this photo, I have seen quite a few more elsewhere in the garden. I have a lot of other, vegetarian, snails in the garden.
Description: Literally thousands of these tiny white chalky snails in the area around Suiderstrand and behind the Agulhas National Park rest camp. I have seen them before (http://www.ispot.org.za/node/143759?nav=search) and they were identified as Hunter Snails (Streptaxidae) by Gerhard Diedericks.
I wondered if they were aliens but seems not. 'The Streptaxidae J. Gray, 1860, or “hunter snails” (Herbert & Kilburn 2004) are the most speciose terrestrial mollusc family in the Afrotropics.'
Description: Small snails converging on a post. They also clustered on grasses. Species unknown. Do they cluster like this for weather reasons? This was taken mid summer and there were, at times, far more than this photo shows.
Photo requested by Tony Rebelo.
Description: the stretched snail (Pic 1) reached 14 cm, the shell was about 30 and 43 mm (shortest and longest distance) as I don't know how to measure it.
Description: About 15mm shell-length, feeding early on drizzly morning on a hideous stew of what looks like dead leaf, hadeda poop and tangled dog-fur.
Description: 2 conical snails, possibly juvenile Agates (Achatinas) feeding happily on a wall-top. A large Carnivorous Snail (Natalina cafra) comes sliding up, makes a lunge for one and it promptly sticks out its rear foot (tail) like an oar, releases the suction below it and rolls along on its shell at considerable speed, falling off the wall into the Asystasia patch below!
Description: Found walking along the road after good rain. It's now buried itself in a pot plant on my stoep, just the tip of the shell still showing. Not sure if it's going to eat up all my basil in one night, or perhaps all the other snails?
Description: Shell about 15mm long. Colours in the 2nd pic exaggerated to show strange sexual apparatus (?) below the shell on the lower fellow. First pic true-to-life colouration. Note short dark tail which they wag when threatened. Emerge on rainy nights.
Description: Not sure what to call habitat, it is in the area of Eastern Coastal Forest but not in the forest. On a path on a hill with grass and rocky outcrops
Description: We've had several of these snails in our garden. Some have been eaten - the bodies have been removed and the shell is broken. All have been found early morning.
What eats them?
Description: Snail with shells predominantly white and brown, ranging from 5mm to 20mm cover the dune plants in their thousands, indiscriminate of species. They are held onto the plants with a epiphragm, a seal of dried mucous. This aestivation will stop them from losing too much moisture over the summer months.
