Lotus snails sleep during the winter and summer

Snails always piggyback on the back of a sophisticated tall spiral house, crawling to wet places to eat.In the hot and dry season, he went to his "floor" to avoid heat - Sleep . Then it releases a sticky substance that seals the snail's mouth. By the end of the autumn, it began to move to the rock, revealing the wall, burying itself in the ground, shunning the hidden world, and also securing the seal that closed the door, against the cold weather - Sleep east until February .

Snails are very fast hungry: experiments show that 4 years without feeding, it still lives.

Snails are often in wet places with many decaying substances. During the day, fear of light shines directly in the shell. At night, he went out to look for food, he ate the main herb, ate the roots, the preschool and the ripe fruit, so it was a harmful species to the crops.

Snails are soft-bodied animals, belonging to the abdominal leg family (Gastropoda welfare). Its whole body is in the snail shell, when it moves, it sticks out its legs, soft, flattened out, moving slowly. Because there is a fluid in the lower leg, when it comes out, it releases a sticky substance that often leaves a mark. The crawling speed is slow but can follow the old road back.

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A snail is a hermaphrodite, but mates (2) to complete the process of fertilization . Spring is the breeding season of snails, it lays eggs into many times, the newly formed snail can feed itself.

It is known that up to 25,000 snails, distributed all over the world. Although it harms the crop, the intermediate host of some parasites but the snails of some snails are very good, can be processed into food. Therefore, many places have cultivated artificially to make food.