Posted on 05/07/2013 7:33:39 PM PDT by rfreedom4u
Residents of a Houston neighborhood are being warned to stay away from giant African land snails after a woman found one in her garden and snapped a photo of it.
The snails, researchers warn, are potentially dangerous to touch, in part because they can carry meningitis. Scientists have warned anyone who comes in contact with them to wash their hands thoroughly.
"They also carry a parasitic disease that can cause a lot of harm to humans and sometimes even death," Autumn Smith-Herron, director of the Institute for the Study of Invasive Species at Sam Houston State University, told NBC Houston affiliate KPRC.
A woman gardening in the Briar Forest neighborhood of Houston found the snail and notified workers at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center who deal with invasive plants. It is the first reported sighting of the mollusk in Texas, and no one seems to know how it got there.
The giant snails can lay 100 eggs per month, and though only one has been found, it is believed more are in the area.
Jack Fendrick, who lives near where the slimy giant was discovered, said he will do his part to warn of the potentially deadly snails.
"I think most kids especially would look at a big snail and want to touch it," he said. "That's scary."
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Yes, and No.
No, because the actual city/state was never given in Twilight Zone Episodes.
Yes, because every street is a potential Maple Street and the monsters are always there because they are us.
this is what open borders gets you anything that can fly swim walk crawl
lol ::snort::
I eat nothing that leaves a slimy trail, whether it walks, crawls, or oozes...............
ill die before i et a spider creepy little barstards
Bloomberg is now banning them in NYC eateries...LOL!
Ray Harryhausen would be impressed. RIP
http://www.moviesoundclips.net/download.php?id=696&ft=mp3
I wonder if you were to fry one of those — if they would taste like calamari.
he banned himself? bout time he got one thing right
I’ve been doing it wong?
You are BAD...! :)
Simple!! Import snail eating snakes from SouthAmerica and King Cobras to control all the new snakes and help with the pythons in FL. Then you can import the common cobra to eat the rodents the pythons would of eaten and mongooses to limit the spread of cobras.
Should fix everything up just dandy.
Just keep them south of the Red River.
yes you are wite
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