What do ordinary snails eat?

Snails mainly feed on plant stems, leaves, flowers and roots. Most of the young snails come from saprophytes and mainly feed on saprophytes; Oncomelania snails are mainly green plants, and feed on the roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits of various plants, especially the buds and succulents of plants, as well as all kinds of waste paper, pig manure and plant residues. Eat each other when you are hungry.

There are 40,000 species of snails in the world. Snails are distributed in all provinces and regions of China, living in dark and humid places such as forests, shrubs, orchards, vegetable gardens, farmland, parks, gardens, temples, mountains, plains and hills.

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Growth habit

Snails like to live in a dark, humid, loose and humus-rich environment and come out at night. They are most afraid of direct sunlight and sensitive to environmental reactions. Their most suitable environment: temperature16 ~ 30℃ (the fastest growth is at 23 ~ 30℃).

As soon as the little snail hatches, it crawls to eat without mother's care. When invaded by the enemy, its head and feet retract into the shell, secreting mucus to seal the mouth of the shell; When the shell fails, it can secrete some substances to repair the body shell.

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