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From: geoffs@brl-sem.ARPA (Geoffrey Sauerborn )
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Subject: Re: raising snails
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Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 10:57:38 EST
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>	... 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.