Question

Hi guys,
What are the environmental impacts of snails? Positive and negative.

Answer 1

Answer:

Even though snails and slugs (gastropods) are some well-known agricultural pests, environmental systems are more vulnerable to alien gastropod impacts.Besides their impacts on horticulture and agriculture through the feeding on plants, some alien gastropods have devastated populations of native species. For example, various gastropods have been implicated in the declines of native snail species on several islands. For conservation of biodiversity and management in socio-economic systems, information on impacts needs to be easily interpretable and comparable.

Land snails serve an important role in the ecosystem. They eat very low on the food web, as most land snails will consume rotting vegetation like moist leaf litter, and also fungi and sometimes eat soil directly.

Slugs and snails are very important. They provide food for all sorts of mammals, birds, slow worms, earthworms, insects and they are part of the natural balance. Upset that balance by removing them and we can do a lot of harm.

Snails represent great patience in life and those that have the totem animal as the snail are creatures of habit that can be frail emotionally. They are usually patient people that are okay with taking things as they come but can be difficult to deal with as they are easily distracted emotionally.

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