Nature Photos

Image 1. These snails are probably the vineyard snail, Cernuella virgata
or the Mediterranean snail, Theba pisana. In summer they appear
by the thousands in the fields in Haute-Provence, France,
and they climb on human structures as well as on plants.

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Image 5. The snails are also common on plants, especially thistles.

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Image 8. Snail tracks through a lichen crust on the surface of tree bark, Florida

Image 9. A banana slug, coastal northern California

Image 10. Banana slugs like to eat mushrooms, coastal northern California

Nature Photos