#snails feeding

[whatnext10]

Interesting Little Manatee Tree Snails Devour Algae

Eager for Algae I realized that I hadn’t posted any video in quite awhile, so I thought why not? Video isn’t my main means of expression, but some things are just better in a video, and this is definitely one of them. Every spring and summer I have quite a few of these little manatee tree snails (Drymaeus dormani) in my yard and around the house. Now don’t freak out, my gardening friends. These…

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[bubblebaath]

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#snail #bugs// #gif// #(??? in a snail way)// #edit: removed comment tag bc ive been seeing it like constantly in my feed from reblogs and its annoying me sdjkhfh// #body horror

[psikonauti]

Leopard slug

#It's eating cat food that probably fell out of the bowl of the cats I'm feeding #It's at the parking of the apartment building I'm living in and there are A LOT of slugs and snails #Which is kinda weird bc the buildings next to us don't seem to have them at all and there is an abundance of them here #This one was really big #I hadn't seen such a big slug before and it looked really cool!! #mine

[kedreeva]

Part of the moss cleaning process; it gets brought in and dumped into my sink, where it gets an initial cleaning. I remove any debris and detritus I can find, and take the "roots" as close to down to bare as I can get them. They get a hot water soak (about 135F to start with) for a bit to loosen anything else up, and then they get a second cleaning, to get to this:

Then they get a quick hydrogen peroxide mix bath to sanitize them, then a rinse, then drying overnight on paper towels. They'll get one more rinse, and then they're ready!

This batch I'm using for the snail babies, in their mini terrariums.

The last batch went into the big terrarium, which has just some isopods/springtails in it so far but will have snails, too. I put together a little trellis for the ivy.

And what's an update without saying hello to Whiskey, who is doing yoga to repair a nick in his shell.

Goodnight!

#snails #whiskey #i have to go to an expo tomorrow i should have been asleep hours ago #but the food dishes came in #so i was adding them and feeding everyone and putting the oyster shell in

[sandpaperoctopi]

cucumber and snails, what could be better

#this is little Kite #he used to sneak snails from the garden into the palace #but he was bad at keeping them contained #Plover would have to have to help him take them back outside #he still feeds the snails now as an adult #art #illustration #animals #ocs #novel stuff #bugs #snails #kite

[bettabettablr]

made an impulsive purchase yesterday

#she is unbelievably difficult to feed #wont eat food at the surface. sand food is 50/50 #she will kinda chase food while it's sinking #hoping it eventually clicks cause I'm not feeding the snails fancy betta food #bettablr #fishblr

[meerphanim]

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Will You Snail doodle page I made 6 days ago! Yes I finally got into this game in the year of 2024, shush.

There's two Squids because I love him a lot. So nice, you see him twice 💜💕💜💕

#will you snail #wys squid #wys unicorn #will you snail squid #will you snail unicorn #digital art #digital doodle #doodle page #doodle posting #digital fanart #digital artist #artists on tumblr #I got fed up with my current WIP's rendering so I didn't get to post that one today #But I wanted to post this one because I really like how this turned out #And also to the... probably really small group of active Will You Snail fans (includes me) #Like feeding birds seeds at a park

[dead-philosophy]

I don't normally post stuff like this but I want you all to know I have a giant gold mystery snail and his name is Dorn.

He is a creature.™

#dead talks #pets #snail #aquarium #your purchases and donations help me feed this monster #thank u #rogal dorn

[iidsch]

Rewatching this scene and I cannot believe Mizu was so happy and proud of making a little dish even if it wasn't the best, but that fucker VERY RUDELY coughed and left instead of thanking her for her effort. Getting stabbed by a nagitana is not enough I need to trap that man in a room with the elephant's foot

#m #blue eye samurai #I HATE HIM 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 #i was slightly sympathetic because i thought he was a product of his difficult life + misogynist ideas of the time #but the fact that he warmed up to her and was in a similar situation as her and still called her a monster 🧨💣🧨💣🧨💣 #i hope he gets reincarnated as a snail so i can feed him to the french

[emperornero]

#slopped up

#not my photo found it on google . dont feed your pet snails milk it doesnt do anything for them #i have no idea whether snails can consume lactose or not but i wouldnt risk it

[yourplasticpal]

Where are we on canceling streaming subscriptions to support the writer's strike (and perhaps actors soon)? If there's going to be a mass cancel action, I want to add my tiny weight to that, obviously, but my anxiety and I are worried about hurting the strikers somehow I didn't think of. Direction would be appreciated.

Side question: is the future of OFMD wrapped up in the strike somehow, or are they just continuing to be as weird and secretive about this show as they have from the start, for no apparent reason?

#wga strike #wga #stranger things #feed an exec to a demogorgon today! #I'm sad my shows are delayed #but the people who make them need to eat #and have a secure future #this shouldn't be this hard #ofmd #did I dream this show? #skin an exec with a snail fork today!

[hewlett39]

On this episode of: posts that only a specific group of people will fully understand

#shovelware’s brain game #swbg #swbg announcer #there is no game #there is no game: wrong dimension #ting game #will you snail #squid will you snail #squid wys #dude stop #battleblock theater #honeyhug bbt #narrator bbt #art #also I am sorry the askblog hasnt come out yet ive been very busy- #i dont think i’ll be able to start it anytime soon but I will feed you guys with these doodles for now

[cheerfullycatholic]

I think I'm gonna be thinking about hermit crabs for the rest of my life

#this mornings conversation with myself was about those weird self reliant 'lone wolf' types of people #and how much literally everything including us relys on something and someone else #mainly God #always and forever #and how crabs rely on snail shells for protection we rely on God for protection as well #and just yeah #idk i worded so much better in my head while feeding the chickens #couldnt replicate it to save my life #but you get it right? what i mean? #sometimes we can find answers ro our questions by looking out instead of in #because the same God who created us #created all of this #and the strings that collect it all together is so much More than we can ever hope to imagine

[anipgarden]

One thing I've found important but also sometimes difficult to learn is that the difference between a 'butterfly garden' and a 'biodiverse habitat' is that you gotta accept that sometimes things are gonna die.

This isn't to say that you shouldn't try to tend to things. If I find a bunch of oleander aphids harassing some of my young milkweed plants, I'll get the hose and spray them off no problem--hard to tend a garden and save milkweed seeds if they're getting the life sucked out of them before they can even go to seed. If I see a lot of snails starting to devour some of my flowers and turn them into brown mush, I'll pick them off and toss them to the neighborhood ducks.

But with that being said, creating a biodiverse environment for wildlife means there's gonna be prey animals and predator animals, and some insects may fill several niches. I plant milkweed and other flowers so monarchs and other insects can enjoy them as a host plant and a nectar source. Some years, I can barely even find large caterpillars because the wasps just go ham and pig out. That doesn't mean I'm gonna hunt down any and every wasp nest and spray it to death for being oh-so-mean to my precious baby caterpillars! They're just trying to survive, just like everything else in my garden!

And in the grand scheme, everything is part of a cycle that feeds everything else. The caterpillars feed the wasps, which then feed the cardinals and chickadees and mocking birds. Later in the summer, I always see some ladybugs, and my aphid problems drop even without me bringing out the hose. Sure, the snails are a major problem for me, right now. But they might be feeding things I'm not even seeing, late at night--like blindworms, or possums, or frogs, and maybe even the birds are going at them when I'm not outside.

The literal basis of my pollinator garden is so things can eat other things--the caterpillars feed on the milkweed, after all. I can't deny that they're part of an ecosystem, and the effort in trying to just sprays poisons everywhere for no real reason.

If I really wanted to, I could try and collect every single tiny little baby caterpillar and keep them in a little container, so I can rear them by hand, if it hurts too much to think of them getting eaten by wasps. My next door neighbor did that. Brought in 26 caterpillars to protect them from outside enemies, and promptly ran out of milkweed. Out of all that, only maybe 10 tops made it. And the instant she set out her stripped-bare plants again, there were already more monarchs coming in and laying seeds on the stems of plants that just barely were starting to leaf back out.

Nature's a balancing act. Monarchs have been dealing with pests like wasps through all this time. Every time I wonder where the caterpillars are, I sure can still find a few dozen eggs on my plants. Butterflies are still dropping by, still laying tons of eggs on my plants. And it's not like I go out there five times a day to count caterpillars--for all I know, there could still be dozens of those little guys growing up where I don't even see them.

I feel like I'm losing my point. Long story short, if wasps are eating some caterpillars in my backyard, I'm not gonna lose my mind. I want my garden to be part of a wider ecosystem, not a members-only club.

#ani rambles #out of queue #pollinator gardening #'but Ani if you don't mind things dying in your garden why are you killing snails' I spent MONEY on those plants #and they're always my non-milkweed favorites they're going after!!! #coneflowers rudbeckias zucchini squash foxglove I'm not allowed to have nice things because of those fuckers #am I being a bit unfair to them???? maybe #but also you try picking off 100 goddamn snails from your fuckin flowers after a rainy day and see how you feel #'ani make your garden less moist to handle the snail problem' I live in FLORIDA #if I don't water things'll bake OR it'll just rain anyways for three days straight and all of a sudden my rudbeckias are dead #I need to attract some goddamn snail eating frogs but until then im putting them in a bucket and feeding them to #the ducks that live in my neighborhood

[ink-flavoured-tea]

Been awhile since I last attempted digital art, trying to get better with it but always been more of a pen and paper kinda artist, and have a bit of a disconnect when it comes to digital art which I’m trying to work through. So here’s a practice doodle of a snail 😊

#my art stuff #art #doodle #snail #a little snail for your feed #digital art #doodlings

[brutal-nemesis]

Can we just take a second to appreciate this tag?

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mkay, carry on

they should!! He is an infinite food source and I think that should be exploited. I think he should should have his organs ripped out and devoured by a monster over and over again. I think they should sink their teeth into his heart and feel it beating in their mouth before finally biting down

#wow an ask #painsandconfusion #castys #i definitely don’t have a thing like this lying around somewhere hahahahahha #I’ll get to it eventually (I say this and then i go back to thinking about makima in the csm op) #I would like to stroke a man’s hair as he lays on my lap and feed him a parasitic snail I am so normal about this #so normal #cannibalism #gore mention #forgot that shit oops