Believe it or not this is the same species of snail which I posted previously. The shells can be quite variable.
White-lipped Snail (Cepaea hortensis) June 2019, rear garden, Staffordshire, England. © Pete Hillman.
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What a gorgeous creature!
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Thank you Liz!
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Lovely photo I really like snails !
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Thank you!
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I see what you mean about the variability of this species. The members of Homo sapiens vary a lot, too.
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And this guy resides in a beautiful home. Nice shot!
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Thank you Sandy 🙂
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Welcome, Pete.
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Despite their eating habits they are attractive. Nice photo Pete!
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Thank you Belinda!
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……and very attractive to the human eye. Lovely photo and very nice DOF.
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Thank you very much Vicki 🙂
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Very pretty shell. Great shot, Pete.
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Many thank Jane! 🙂
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As a child the first thing I ever collected was a jar of snail shells as I too was fascinated by their variations. I still have them!
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They are fascinating. Glad you kept them!
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That one is quite fancy! I wonder what determines the design on each one.
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It is a fancy one 🙂 I wonder also.
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Very cool looking , unique.
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Thank you Sandra 🙂
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I love snails, especially their pretty shells. On walks, I’ll sometimes gather a few discarded shells. What I want to know is, are those “discarded” ones ever potentially a home for another snail that happens to come across it? In other words, should I leave the shells where they are?
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I really like their shells, too. But once the snail dies the shell is much like a seashell and becomes permanently vacant, so gather all you want 🙂
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Great, thanks for the info, Pete.
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What a beauty. Of course more rain means more snails.
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Thank you, oh, and always more snails … plenty after this recent lot of rain.
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True story. From a soggy West Yorkshire 🌧🌧☔
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I would give show you some rain cloud emoticons from here in the West Midlands but I don’t know if there is even a PC keyboard shortcut lol! 🙂
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