What did the earthworm say to the snail?

When the earthworm sees the snail at the top of the wall, it will also say to the snail, you have finally left. Snails are one of the most common mollusks on land. It mainly feeds on plants, especially the fine buds and young leaves of crops, so wild snails are harmful to crops.

With the development of science, people turn harm into benefit and raise snails artificially, so that snails can provide human beings with snail meat with high nutritional value.

Brief introduction of snail

Almost all over the world, different kinds of snails have different sizes. African snails can be as long as 30 cm, while northern wild species are generally less than 1 cm. Snails generally feed on leaves and buds of plants, so they are an agricultural pest. But there are also carnivorous snails that feed on other kinds of snails.

Now this kind of artificially bred edible snail has spread all over the world with French cooking. Snails are hermaphroditic, some species can reproduce independently, but most species need two individuals to mate and exchange sperm with each other. Ordinary snails lay eggs in wet soil, and usually after two to four weeks, small snails will break out of the ground. It can lay 100 eggs at a time.

Snails have many natural enemies, such as chickens, ducks, birds, toads, turtles, snakes, hedgehogs and so on. Fireflies mainly feed on snails. Snails can generally live for 2-3 years, up to 7 years at the longest, but most of them may become food for other animals in that year.

Snails have different symbolic meanings in different cultures. In China, snails symbolize slowness and backwardness. In western Europe, it symbolizes tenacity and perseverance; Some people predict the weather by the action of snails. Finns believe that if snails have long tentacles, it means good weather tomorrow.