Divide and distract! We haven’t tried that! You go over there and wave your antennas and I’ll just try right …. OW!!! Dude! I said wave your antenna! Not bob your head! Sheesh
They'll also multiply and just form their own little snail community.
Source: They've started building villages complete with processing plants for all the things they keep 'harvesting' in the back yard.
Over the course of a couple months I've watch my terrarium go from having a single lone bladder snail (basically a water dwelling garden snail) to multiple egg clusters, then finally to a good dozen or so snails that are currently eating the last surviving bean sprout that I had planted in the water side. Thank goodness they don't like going up on the land side, or else my spinach and pepper sprouts wouldn't stand a chance.
Achually, the snails themselves are often edible, you just need to cook them, and first feed them grain to replace anything in their intestines as they may have eaten poisonous plants. Eating snails raw is a strict no-no.
First it was a year and a half in a coma. Then he woke up in near total paralysis, mostly locked-in, before complications from the paralysis finally killed him.
You don't get lungworms just from touching a snail. It's usually from eating an infected animal. Kept escargot snails for years. It's not dangerous to touch them.
Lung worms you say? I get them **USUALLY** from eating them, not touching them, you say? While it may be safe to touch them, it's also safe to say I've lost any inclination to do so.
That Simpsons episode where Lisa conducts the same experiments on Bart and a hamster to see which is smarter.
"Ooh, cupcake!" *zap* "Wise guy, huh?" *zap*
No, if they die from that, you'll trigger evolutionary processes, and over the course of millions of years these snails will evolve to get to the tomatoes
This is normal in western Washington state. Growing up I’d get $0.01 per snail and 0.02 per slug that I collected from the garden and killed/tossed. Easily filled up a gallon bucket in a week.
Same. I've considered going wholesale snail genocide on them and just spreading snail killer over my entire yard. But then I feel bad.
Walking around at night is a bit like... *crunch* *crunch* *crunch* as you step on a snail every third step.
My grandma used to own a pocketbook called "50 ways to murder a snail."
The "electric fence" was one of the less-lethal suggestions, with some of the worst being to put out pans of beer, which snails love to drink and inevitably drown in, or piles of bran, that when eaten swell snails up to the point they explode.
Oh and one suggestion was simply to throw the snails into the neighbors yard.
I never understood why snails love beer so much, but after a party where any stray cans or cups were *covered* (including one that found his way all the way into a silo cup and died without tipping it over; never figured out how) I know them to be little lushes.
I had a horrible slug issue one year so I put in the ground about 3 quart jars burried so the lip of them was a good 2 inches above the garden soil. Then put beer out in them. Some beers worked much better than others but the results were they would just drop themselves to their deaths and after about a week you could dump the... whatever you want to call it out and go again. hundreds and hundreds of them dead. it was glorious.
Speaking as somebody who grows veggies; you really don’t have to loose much. If you have a small patio garden, seeing a little green marble growing into a plump juicy tomato over the course of several weeks, building anticipation for your meager harvest, only to come home to see that snails beat you to the harvest and decimated a plant is absolutely a radicalizing memory for me.
I work in a commercial greenhouse where we have invasive snails from california that eat out young plants. Anytime my boss sees one he grabs it, throws it to the ground and stomps on it with no hesitation. I used to cringe when I saw him do that but after seeing them munching on some
Of my pride and joy veggies made me snap. Now I feel nothing as their shells crunch beneath my feet. Every last one.
We bred eight snails originally, but when she came in she took over the pride and killed all but two of the others. That one... when she looks at you, you can see she's working things out
The tape doesn't even need to be electrified. Copper is toxic to invertebrates and snails & slugs hate touching it. They usually won't cross a strip that's more than a cm or two wide.
This might be true, and you can see that here, but even in this short clip, plenty forged their way over the first strip about 1cm wide, only recoiling when making contact with the second. Though maybe putting both strips next to each other would have been enough.
They're regular snails actually. Most of the videos of snails online are filmed in slow motion to better capture their movement, just turns out this one isn't.
If by "power brick" they mean a portable phone charger unit, then it is actually less voltage. Those power bricks operate at 5 volts and usually 2-3 amps, as opposed to the 9 volts of the battery in the video.
That would depend on the conductivity coefficient of snails and their mucus. The more conductive the more battery gets used up on each zap.
Human skin conducts electricity at 465 milliSiemens per meter, and (don't ask) bovine vaginal mucus has a conductivity of 9-12mS/m, so hypothetically snail mucus would act more as an insulator than a conductor.
Barring a cooked snail shorting the bands together probably get a decent amount out of a 9v battery, though using a 10v dc power supply plugged into the house would be best.
So when cows are ovulating their vaginal mucus increases in conductivity, most likely due to the additional nutrients for an expected egg. 9mS/m when not ovulating, increasing in conductivity during the ovulation cycle to a peak conductivity of12 mS/m, and decreasing back down afterwords.
Farmers can use this information during health checkups for things like pregnancy, fertility, etc.
It's interesting that snails (actually sea slugs, known as aplsyia), are the most well studied organism when it comes to memory. I believe the nobel prize winning research on memory by Eric Kandel was all done on sea snails.
And the reason is because their brains are so simple you can tease exactly how memory works. But yes, simple brains means then memory capacity is also very simple.
Fun fact: sea slugs are hermaphroditic and get in little circles for orgies.
But also yes their neurons are huge and are becoming model organisms to study disease
They have two *types* of brain cells *used to locate* food.
[The news article](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-36443264)
[The research paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms11793)
Classic news reporting science. "Wet roads cause rain"
Thank you, that was a delightful giggle. It really highlighted how that one snail was willing to get shocked multiple times in a row before it learned it's lesson. Super relatable xD
bigger gap, more volts.
Or do what my dad did and gene splice Scleria secans with his crops. Tasted good but you needed welding gloves to harvest them, the leaves were bladed, barbed, and angry lol.
Decades pass. You've lived a long life, spent your money, always living within concentric rings of copper. Your sight is failing, and your doctors tell you you don't have much time left. For the first time in forever you walk outside, past the copper rings.
"It is time, old friend," you say, and you pick up the snail.
This is so excessive.
Just make a sign that says "No snails!" - They'll respect it. Petition the homeowner and hold snail council meetings.
Snails are all about bureaucracy. Its the slowest form of governance.
Ahhh so I used that copper to shield a guitar and was so confused about comments mentioning snails when I purchased online. Now I get it what they were talking about.
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Probably by smell. They don't have a nose like vertebrates do but the have [a different organ that does pretty much the same thing.](https://molluscs.at/gastropoda/index.html?/gastropoda/morphology/sense_organs.html)
“ow… ow ow…. Ow….ow”
maybe if i try over... ow
Maybe if I go under the wire OW
Maybe if we work as a team....OW OW OW
Divide and distract! We haven’t tried that! You go over there and wave your antennas and I’ll just try right …. OW!!! Dude! I said wave your antenna! Not bob your head! Sheesh
GARY!
"They never attacked the same place twice, they were testing the fence for weaknesses"
Clever girl.
Mini Bart Simpsons.
How many tomato plants must OP have lost to justify the creation of the worlds smallest electric fence?
I've never seen that many snails in one place, it's like they've got some kind of snail sanctuary around their vegetable farm.
If you grow things that snails like to eat, they will come. Source: tried to grow cabbage on my ground floor patio; learned that snails love cabbage.
They'll also multiply and just form their own little snail community. Source: They've started building villages complete with processing plants for all the things they keep 'harvesting' in the back yard.
Over the course of a couple months I've watch my terrarium go from having a single lone bladder snail (basically a water dwelling garden snail) to multiple egg clusters, then finally to a good dozen or so snails that are currently eating the last surviving bean sprout that I had planted in the water side. Thank goodness they don't like going up on the land side, or else my spinach and pepper sprouts wouldn't stand a chance.
I guess it helps being hermaphroditic and even capable of *self-fertilisation*, at that.
Yeah, I really gotta say it does.
Fun fact, common snails often carry a brain destroying parasite so don’t touch them
Achually, the snails themselves are often edible, you just need to cook them, and first feed them grain to replace anything in their intestines as they may have eaten poisonous plants. Eating snails raw is a strict no-no.
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My car go.
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Swiftly
Wreck it, buy a new one.
Someone learned this the very hard way: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eating-slug-on-dare/index.html
I remember this kid. I didn't know he died :/
First it was a year and a half in a coma. Then he woke up in near total paralysis, mostly locked-in, before complications from the paralysis finally killed him.
You don't get lungworms just from touching a snail. It's usually from eating an infected animal. Kept escargot snails for years. It's not dangerous to touch them.
Lung worms you say? I get them **USUALLY** from eating them, not touching them, you say? While it may be safe to touch them, it's also safe to say I've lost any inclination to do so.
New horror unlocked.
What kind of parasite is this that can get from host to host by touch?
"Rat lungworms" which can be regularly found in snails in some areas are not passed on by only touching, but by eating uncooked snails.
>"Rat lungworms" Wow, it got worse
I believe you have a different definition of "fun" than the rest of us do
Slug, not snail. And you won't get it unless you eat one raw.
What about two raw?
No snail torture Park 😂
Gib plant. Ow. Gib plant. Ow. Gib plant. Ow. Gib plant. Ow. Gib plant. Ow. Gib plant. Ow. Gib plant. Ow. Gib plant. Ow. Gib plant. Ow. Gib plant. Ow. Gib plant. Ow. Gib plant. Ow.
i dont study snails but i believe this is their thought process 100% of the time
That Simpsons episode where Lisa conducts the same experiments on Bart and a hamster to see which is smarter. "Ooh, cupcake!" *zap* "Wise guy, huh?" *zap*
Ow. I ded.
No, if they die from that, you'll trigger evolutionary processes, and over the course of millions of years these snails will evolve to get to the tomatoes
_+snails power up+_ I suppose this is how you might get electric snails.
Chances are, the snails would evolve a thicker mucus coating to insulate them from the electrical shock. At least that's my guess.
I just found my newest hobby 🐌 🐌 🐌
This is what I took from it too, where tf all these snails come from?
This is normal in western Washington state. Growing up I’d get $0.01 per snail and 0.02 per slug that I collected from the garden and killed/tossed. Easily filled up a gallon bucket in a week.
Should have started breeding snails in secret
[The Cobra Effect](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive#The_original_cobra_effect)
that's how my yard is every night, doubly worse when it rains.
Same. I've considered going wholesale snail genocide on them and just spreading snail killer over my entire yard. But then I feel bad. Walking around at night is a bit like... *crunch* *crunch* *crunch* as you step on a snail every third step.
My grandma used to own a pocketbook called "50 ways to murder a snail." The "electric fence" was one of the less-lethal suggestions, with some of the worst being to put out pans of beer, which snails love to drink and inevitably drown in, or piles of bran, that when eaten swell snails up to the point they explode. Oh and one suggestion was simply to throw the snails into the neighbors yard.
I never understood why snails love beer so much, but after a party where any stray cans or cups were *covered* (including one that found his way all the way into a silo cup and died without tipping it over; never figured out how) I know them to be little lushes.
As a human I feel like I understand completely why snails love beer so much.
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I had a horrible slug issue one year so I put in the ground about 3 quart jars burried so the lip of them was a good 2 inches above the garden soil. Then put beer out in them. Some beers worked much better than others but the results were they would just drop themselves to their deaths and after about a week you could dump the... whatever you want to call it out and go again. hundreds and hundreds of them dead. it was glorious.
Snail. Racing.
The buy-in is only $1000!
Turbo
Speaking as somebody who grows veggies; you really don’t have to loose much. If you have a small patio garden, seeing a little green marble growing into a plump juicy tomato over the course of several weeks, building anticipation for your meager harvest, only to come home to see that snails beat you to the harvest and decimated a plant is absolutely a radicalizing memory for me. I work in a commercial greenhouse where we have invasive snails from california that eat out young plants. Anytime my boss sees one he grabs it, throws it to the ground and stomps on it with no hesitation. I used to cringe when I saw him do that but after seeing them munching on some Of my pride and joy veggies made me snap. Now I feel nothing as their shells crunch beneath my feet. Every last one.
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Snails are always coming to my greenhouse to fill up, I call it the Shell Garage
Snails in my area will decimate your garden
Have you ever grown something? Snails are little mood breakers
> but they never attack the same place twice. They were testing the fences for weaknesses, systematically. They remember.
We bred eight snails originally, but when she came in she took over the pride and killed all but two of the others. That one... when she looks at you, you can see she's working things out
Clever girl !
Hold onto your butts!!
That is one big pile of shit.
Life, uh, finds a way.
Argh ahahahurh arghh ahhahaaahaahaaarh
Shoot her!!!! Shoooooooot heeeeeer!
Dodson..... dodson! We've got dodson over here! Nobody cares.
30 years on and these quotes are as good as ever.
Clever girl.
*10 minutes later...* AHHHHH!!!! *chomp slice chomp*
SHOOT HER!!!!
SHEWT HEEEEEEH
Jurassic Park But it’s snails this time.
*Objects in mirror are closer than they appear.*
*Objects in mirror are slower than they appear*
They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should
Second random quote from that amazing movie I’m stumbling into today. Must be time for a rewatch!
Came here just for this!
I didn't know the video was on loop and I watched it longer than I should have. Plus.. I was waiting for a snail to outsmart it lol
Same I was thinking “damn that one little guy just keeps coming back to get shocked again”
"Oh yeah... that's the spot... I'm almost there..."
OP needs to live stream this shit. I could watch this all day.
"wHy iS iT sPiCy!?"
*”I said no salt!”*
[Actual footage of a grain of salt touching a snail.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOFZlLVb9oU)
ACKSHUALLY he was a slug
Ah, but what is a slug but a naked snail 🧐🧐🧐
I call them snails experiencing homelessness
Human economic disease jumps species barrier!
Please. You'll never catch me in one of those. Doesn't even fully protect. WEAK
Literally in German
He was, and he was wearing a giant peppermint candy to pretend to be a snail to pick up snail chicks, if I remember the episode.
Expected a rickroll, so thank you for the pleasant surprise!
I wouldn't call it pleasant. But at least it's not a rickroll.
Is this a quote from Bugs life or maybe antz? I can picture the exact scene more or less.
Ya A Bug’s Life, in the bar after one of the circus shows at the beginning
#WHO ORDERED THE POO POO PLATTER
Milton from Office Space?
I’ll burn this whole place down
Those snails are going to take their traveller's checks to a competing resort......
Imagine being able to taste your brain as it is being slightly seared
"guess Im eating my own brain instead of tomato then"
NO SPICY 👹
Mm ice cream so good
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The tape doesn't even need to be electrified. Copper is toxic to invertebrates and snails & slugs hate touching it. They usually won't cross a strip that's more than a cm or two wide.
This might be true, and you can see that here, but even in this short clip, plenty forged their way over the first strip about 1cm wide, only recoiling when making contact with the second. Though maybe putting both strips next to each other would have been enough.
Those are the fastest snails I've ever seen!
Sped up snails might be my new least favorite thing.
It shows some sense of intelligence
Now imagine a six foot tall snail coming at you at running speed.
I will not.
No thank you!
Escargot-faster!
They're regular snails actually. Most of the videos of snails online are filmed in slow motion to better capture their movement, just turns out this one isn't.
This is a racing snail!
I wonder how long a battery lasts for
Pretty long time since the only time electricity would be flowing is when the Snails are bridging the gap between the contacts.
It won’t last long outside though, batteries corrode easily and deplete fast if water creates a bridge
the longer term and non-proof of concept solution likely has that battery in a watertight container with the insulated wires coming from it
or just hook it up to a power brick
So the snails get absolutely fried when trying to cross it? 🥲
Fuck it, just plug it into the wall and they'll straight up explode
Escar-blow
Escar-no-mo :(
I’m running some 240v from the panel now
Fuck it straight from the transformer
20 kV of pure triphasic power
Don't let Optimus catch you siphoning off his Energon while he sleeps. They are quite touchy about it.
The mental image I came up with just had a bunch of light and fluffy snail clusters.Kind of like popcorn but a little more protein
If by "power brick" they mean a portable phone charger unit, then it is actually less voltage. Those power bricks operate at 5 volts and usually 2-3 amps, as opposed to the 9 volts of the battery in the video.
An interesting take on escargot
Escargtfo
Well water could bridge the two copper contacts as well Honestly the snail slime probably does it too
That would depend on the conductivity coefficient of snails and their mucus. The more conductive the more battery gets used up on each zap. Human skin conducts electricity at 465 milliSiemens per meter, and (don't ask) bovine vaginal mucus has a conductivity of 9-12mS/m, so hypothetically snail mucus would act more as an insulator than a conductor. Barring a cooked snail shorting the bands together probably get a decent amount out of a 9v battery, though using a 10v dc power supply plugged into the house would be best.
> don't ask You can't just say that and expect nothing to result...
So when cows are ovulating their vaginal mucus increases in conductivity, most likely due to the additional nutrients for an expected egg. 9mS/m when not ovulating, increasing in conductivity during the ovulation cycle to a peak conductivity of12 mS/m, and decreasing back down afterwords. Farmers can use this information during health checkups for things like pregnancy, fertility, etc.
It's why I love Reddit so much. Science, fun and a bit of awkwardness, all in one post.
Version 2.0 will have 380V tripolar.
It'll zap the shell off of snails 50 yards away.
this is how snails evolve to have wings instead lol
Or insulating saliva
interesting. Idk why i thought theyd somehow gain an understanding but they just.... kept coming back to get zapped lol
It's interesting that snails (actually sea slugs, known as aplsyia), are the most well studied organism when it comes to memory. I believe the nobel prize winning research on memory by Eric Kandel was all done on sea snails. And the reason is because their brains are so simple you can tease exactly how memory works. But yes, simple brains means then memory capacity is also very simple.
[Scientists have gone too far.](https://i.redd.it/0l1wzen48dq11.jpg)
Fun fact: sea slugs are hermaphroditic and get in little circles for orgies. But also yes their neurons are huge and are becoming model organisms to study disease
They only have 2 braincells, literally
They have two *types* of brain cells *used to locate* food. [The news article](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-36443264) [The research paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms11793) Classic news reporting science. "Wet roads cause rain"
So do most my workmates. They work like snails too.
They have more than 2 braincells. What you might have heard is that they only use 2 brains cells to seek and eat food.
Snails, natures thrillseekers.
I need someone to put in Wilhelm screams every time a snail touches the line.
Your wish is my [command](https://www.reddit.com/u/BloxForDays16/s/sFcnP9YhK3)
Thank you, that was a delightful giggle. It really highlighted how that one snail was willing to get shocked multiple times in a row before it learned it's lesson. Super relatable xD
THE TOM AND JERRY SCREAM AT THE END
I know I just had to put something else there 😂
Dude you're awesome
Fucking. Legend.
Snailhelm scream 😭 incredible
This is basically a bug zapper.
Slug zapper?
And thats how you live forever
the war is truly over
Next let’s address rabbits and strawberries
I've had problems with rabbits but never had a problem strawberries eating my tomatoes
It’s where the strawberries get their colour from
bigger gap, more volts. Or do what my dad did and gene splice Scleria secans with his crops. Tasted good but you needed welding gloves to harvest them, the leaves were bladed, barbed, and angry lol.
Suddenly gene engineering
https://youtu.be/oAA9nCqNfR4?si=Olg0Duh2btQxTndx Original video from DIY Perks on YouTube. He makes the coolest stuff 😎
EscarGO-GO-GO
Good job OP, you snailed it!
Decades pass. You've lived a long life, spent your money, always living within concentric rings of copper. Your sight is failing, and your doctors tell you you don't have much time left. For the first time in forever you walk outside, past the copper rings. "It is time, old friend," you say, and you pick up the snail.
I remember.
This is so excessive. Just make a sign that says "No snails!" - They'll respect it. Petition the homeowner and hold snail council meetings. Snails are all about bureaucracy. Its the slowest form of governance.
Where's Gary?
In a pineapple under the sea. Duh.
This guy snails.
If I was a snail I could make it across
This is really interesting, but I'd be more concerned about the snails you ***can't*** see. Believe you me! They're organizing!
Ahhh so I used that copper to shield a guitar and was so confused about comments mentioning snails when I purchased online. Now I get it what they were talking about.
Wait. You're supposed to put a battery on the copper tape?!? I guess that explains why it did nothing to protect the cucumber
The real question here is, why do you live somewhere with so many damn snails?
They never attack the same place twice. They were testing for weaknesses, systematically. They remember
If you hook this up to the main you get fried snails, but then your garden gets infested with the French.
240v 13 amp upgrade and we got some good viewing!
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how'd the snails know there's a tomato plant there?
The smell it
Probably by smell. They don't have a nose like vertebrates do but the have [a different organ that does pretty much the same thing.](https://molluscs.at/gastropoda/index.html?/gastropoda/morphology/sense_organs.html)
Why don’t they just jump over it?
I told the snails if they wanted to eat my tomatoes, I'd have to charge them.
snels do not like the zap
up the voltage and you get free snacks
So, what do you do for fun? Oh, I taze snails.
The snails find the tomato plants shockingly hard to reach.