I found this juevenile snail today. It is teeny-weeny small. But the startling thing I discovered about it when I got the photos on the PC was that the shell had fine hairs on it. Apparently this helps it stick to the leaves when feeding. Double-click image for a closer look.
© Peter Hillman ♦ 3rd April 2020 ♦ Rear garden, Staffordshire ♦ Nikon D7200
Nature Journeys 
I didn’t know about the hairs. Interesting.
Amazing what you sometimes discover when you get close with the camera.
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I could hardly see the snail, so I would not have seen the hairs at all if its wasn’t for the macro lens 🙂
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Either that, or it hasn’t been able to get to its hair-dresser during the current unpleasantness! (Honestly–I’ve never seen anything like this. Neat capture, Pete.)
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Thank you, Linda 🙂 It was one of those .. you got to be kidding me (I think that was from John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’ … moments when I first saw them.
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Today’s the day for spirals. I’ve never heard of a snail with hairs, but that sure looks like what you have.
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Nature never fails to surprise me 🙂
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It is a humbling experience to realize how little we actually know about nature.
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Bizarre!
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Indeed!
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Wow, who knew?
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Not me 🙂
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I think you’re right about the purpose of the little structures. Did you touch or prod them with something? It looks like they might be rather more stiff extensions of the shell material than softer and hairlike. Or maybe it was chilly and that’s the molluscan equivalent of goose bumps?
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lol 🙂 There are a couple of species of hairy snails over here, apparently. Eve otherr species, the juveniles can be hairy. It’s a new one on me.
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Hairs on a snail shell: I shall have to take a much closer look at any snails I come across in future!
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I is so unusual for sure.
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That is an interesting information, Pete!!
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Thank you, Indira 🙂
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Wow, that’s news to me too, Pete. I never would have thought a shell could be hairy. Cool catch. Sometime a closer look reveals surprising things.
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Thank you, Steve. You think you have seen everything, and then bang … something else comes along .. which is great! 🙂
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Oh my goodness that’s amazing!
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I though so,too, when I got it up on the PC screen.
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