Giant African snail forces South Florida community to quarantine

Daily Mail ^ | 21/6/23 | Melissa Koenig

[CtBigPat]

I don’t think Frenchmen would be up to the task. You’re gonna need Cajons for this.

[Bethaneidh]

Salt?

[Eleutheria5]

Gary! I've found you!

[LeoWindhorse]

For a time , I had these parts invading my tropical property, years ago.I used to hunt them with pellet pistols. Good fun! Somehow they disappeared. Haven’t seen a one in years . Very odd.

[LeoWindhorse]

’ pests’

[cuban leaf]

They look delicious.

[dsrtsage]

Bees, and Snails, and Teenz oh my

[Recompennation]

The pestilent results are pernicious where ever afriekka is interjected .
The petulance, , just the nature of the beast

[Eleutheria5]

Nattering nabobs of nabobs nattering is naturally nattering with nature.

[GaltAdonis]

Surely our civilization is utterly doomed because of this - eventually...

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

If you’ve never tried it, pour salt on a slug. They hate that.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Did you hear about the high school football player drinking beer and found a slug and ate it.

He’s a vegetable now, seriously.

[PIF]

They taste like hospital food:

Giant African land snails can carry dangerous parasites.

The rat lungworm (Angiostrongylus cantonensis) uses snails to complete its life cycle. The adult worms both live and reproduce inside common rat species, such as black, brown, and cotton rats. The worm’s larvae end up in the host mammal’s poop and are eventually excreted. The feces are then eaten by scavenging snails. If one of the worm-carrying snails is later eaten by a rodent, the cycle continues.

A 2015 survey of 50 L. fulica snails collected in Miami found that 18 of them harbored rat lungworms. The worms can cause eosinophilic meningitis in humans who eat the snails, either as part of a meal or by accidentally ingesting parts of the snails on grocery store produce. The illness can be fatal.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/653017/giant-african-land-snail-facts

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Whoa.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Woof. I’ll stick with fried clams from New England.

[dfwgator]

[RouxStir]

Waiting for Biden to declare a health emergency and require the snails to where masks....as well as humans in the quarantine area.

[Eleutheria5]

If Fauci opens his mouth, throw a snail in it.

[RouxStir]

Too late: the giant snails have already taken over the US Capitol.

[gitmo]

My son would ask, “What are we going to name him?”