We Love The Rain

Garden Snail (Cornu aspersum)

After a fair bit of rain I can expect to find these snails out and about in the daytime, where usually they feed under the safe cover of darkness.

White-lipped Snail (Cepaea hortensis)

They can be a pest, especially to my bedding plants and the few vegetables I grow, and my Hosta which looks like it has been riddled with bullets. Yet I still find a fascination with these creatures, and how very well evolved they are for surviving on the land, as opposed to their seafaring cousins.

By the Mesozoic Era, some 248 million years ago, some of these gastropods had adapted in such a way they left the marine environment to live in freshwater and terrestrial habitats. And here they are now, munching through my garden after the June rain has fallen.

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Rear garden, Staffordshire, England. June 2017.

06/17 by Peter Hillman Categories: Animals, Animals (Invertebrates), Macro Photography, Molluscs, Nature Photography, Photography, Slugs & Snails, Wildlife PhotographyTags: Cepaea hortensis, Cornu aspersum, Garden Snail, Garden Snail Cornu aspersum, Gastropods, Macro, Macro Photography, Molluscs, Nature, Nature Photography, Photography, Slugs and snails, White-lipped Snail, White-lipped Snail Cepaea hortensis, Wildlife Photography 25 Comments