Giant Damage-Causing Snails Are Aggressively Invading Florida

Yeah , so giant African demesne snail are infesting southern Florida . They ’re the variety that can eat through plaster and stucco and they get as big as rotter . When the rainy time of year ends in a few weeks the universe will explode . It ’s a badsituation .

The same snails invaded in 1966 when a nestling brought three back to Miami from Hawaii . The population grew to 17,000 in seven years and Florida had to spend $ 1 million to get rid of them over ten years . What is the deal with these snails ?

One female person can produce 1,200 eggs a yr and they eat stucco like crazy because the calcium helps build their shell . Oh , and by the way they can circulate a parasitical crumb lungworm that can infect mankind and even make a character of meningitis . There are n’t any case of that in the U.S. right now , but add up on . Between this , thesinkholeand the ongoing invasive python eradicationchallenge , you would mean that Florida would be maxed out . But apparently that ’s not how snail karma works . [ Reuters ]

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