Giant Snails Still Terrorizing Florida Despite Massive Expenditures
- 9 years ago
The State of Florida is in a state of snail-induced disrepair after multi-million dollar efforts to eradicate the dangerous African giant snail have all but fallen flat.
Four years after the first African giant snails appeared in Miami, they've spread to the suburbs and there seems to be no stopping them.
Though massive, with the largest yet recorded around seven inches long, the snails disappear underground where they stay undetected for months at a time. During the warm and wet hurricane season they rise to feed.
The ravenous gastropods can consume up to 500 different species of Floridian flora and have even been known to suck the stucco off of houses.
They're also dangerous.
Many snails consume infected rat feces. This turns them into hosts for a parasitic worm whi
Four years after the first African giant snails appeared in Miami, they've spread to the suburbs and there seems to be no stopping them.
Though massive, with the largest yet recorded around seven inches long, the snails disappear underground where they stay undetected for months at a time. During the warm and wet hurricane season they rise to feed.
The ravenous gastropods can consume up to 500 different species of Floridian flora and have even been known to suck the stucco off of houses.
They're also dangerous.
Many snails consume infected rat feces. This turns them into hosts for a parasitic worm whi