Hi Fred,
Our captive Cepaea are eating romaine and carrots. I'm not sure about their interest in the dead leaves in the container. (These Cepaea are from Cambridge, Massachusetts, so it's possible they have educated tastes.)
David Kirsh
Durham, NC
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>From: "Frederick W. Schueler" <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Mar 7, 2010 8:09 PM
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>Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Parsnip-stripping terrestrial Gastropod
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>aydin wrote:
>
>> I would be surprised to see active snails on frozen ground.
>
>* I wasn't supposing they were active now, I was just trolling for some
>species that might have done the feeding in the fall, and not left any
>shells on the surface, either because they were slugs, or because they
>weren't dying on the surface.
>
>> I just read Aleta's notes on C. nemoralis feeding on dry carrot plants. Do
>> you know if they also feed on fresh carrot plants? [ http://pinicola.ca/cepaea1.htm ]
>
>* no, they wait until the stems have died, and then swarm up them,
>stripping the stems down to the white core. In the fall, we use the
>presence of the stripped stems as evidence that the Cepaea have spread
>that far from the introduction site.
>
>In the Ceapea line, I'd like to hear of any situation where Cepaea eat
>live green previously-unmunched vegetation. We have a neighbour who says
>they perforate her Hosta plants, but we suspect Deroceras reticulatum is
>the real culprit, and the Ceapea are just cleaning up after the slugs.
>
>Incidentally, the co-ords I gave in the original message was the wrong
>waypoint, the actual site is 44.657799N, 75.816458W.
>
>fred.
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