snails

[trishtrash]

why do snails climb up trees

[divegirl]

For the view?

[drchasuble]

...To get to the other side. No that's chickens isn't it.

To eat leaves? Commit suicide?

[smudge]

To avoid snail pellets?

[horsestache1]

To deliver worms to the birds (like pizza)

[lankeela]

Because they can.

[wolf63]

do they?

[drchasuble]

I must say that I have never seen one up a tree. I've seen one lurking in the ivy on a tree trunk but never just up a tree.

I saw this humungous caterpillar climbing up a tree once - I promptly forgot about it then screamed my head off when it dropped off into my hair half an hour later.

[Catso]

They most definitely do. And up house walls and fences. Anything vertical really.

Unfortunately, I've no idea why, either.

[lankeela]

I have four Giant African Land Snails in a large plastic tank (well storage container, the tank got too small!). They like to climb up the sides and I spray it with tepid water, so they can slide up and down and have a drink. One got out and climbed up the wallpaper. I tried to lift it off but you have to wait until they are ready to let go, they have got quite a bit of suction - when it came away from the wall it had eaten the wallpaper and I now have a snail's foot shaped bald patch right in the middle of my front room wall!

[wolf63]

lankeela - when you say 'Giant' snails are they bigger than your mutts?

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