Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-sem.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!brl-sem!geoffs From: geoffs@brl-sem.ARPA (Geoffrey Sauerborn ) Newsgroups: net.pets,net.garden,net.cooks Subject: Re: raising snails Message-ID: <484@brl-sem.ARPA> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 10:57:38 EST Article-I.D.: brl-sem.484 Posted: Mon Nov 4 10:57:38 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 07:12:47 EST References: <5410@amdcad.UUCP> <2161@amdahl.UUCP> <2604@brl-tgr.ARPA> <563@tymix.UUCP> Reply-To: geoffs@brl-semy Sauerborn (TANK).ARPA (Geoffrey Sauerborn (TANK) ) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 8 Xref: linus net.pets:1206 net.garden:738 net.cooks:4319 > ... from France in order to breed them for food. Unfortunately, > a few escaped. Being a foreign variety, they had no natural enemies > here and took over the west coast and are now the common California > garden snail. > I saw a documentary once that showed how California fruit growers battled snails by releasing a species of snail about their fruit trees which preys on other snails.