Rosy wolf snails are among the good guys, and I’m glad to have made their acquaintance. Sherry Boas can be reached at [email protected].

Rosy wolf snails were introduced to Hawaii in the 1950s to control another invasive snail, but the plan backfired. Rosy wolf snails are exceptionally good at eating native snails.

Further information on the rosy wolf snail can be found at Snail-Eating Snails at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/in523. Can I plant my tomato seeds now for my summer vegetable garden?

The Rosy Wolf snail not only follows trails but once on a trail moves two to three times faster than any other snail. It gobbles up smaller snails whole and even eats slugs.

In 2017, a rosy wolf snail crawled along a sunlit trail in Tahiti with an unexpected passenger: a bespoke computer the size of an aphid, screwed delicately on its shell like a top hat.

But the rosy wolf snail has a third set, oral lappets, that help it locate other snails' slime. It then grabs its prey and attacks it with its radula, which works like a rough tongue, Warriner said.

Rosy wolf snails were introduced to Hawaii in the 1950s to control another invasive snail, but the plan backfired. Rosy wolf snails are exceptionally good at eating native snails.

Both the rosy wolf snail and the giant African snail have appendices for seeing and smelling. But the rosy wolf snail has a third set, oral lappets, that help it locate other snails' slime.

In 2017, a rosy wolf snail crawled along a sunlit trail in Tahiti with an unexpected passenger: a bespoke computer the size of an aphid, screwed delicately on its shell like a top hat.This ...

French authorities who ran the South Pacific Society Islands introduced that predator, the rosy wolf snail, in 1974 in an attempt to curb the spread of the giant African land snail that had been ...

Rosy wolf snails were introduced to Hawaii In the 1950s to control another invasive snail, but the plan backfired. Rosy wolf snails are exceptionally good at eating native snails.

The tree snails maintain forest health by eating decaying plant tissue and fungi, but were decimated after humans introduced the predatory rosy wolf snails in the 1970s. They have since been ...