James,
I usually find them along roadsides, but this may be an artifact of my
collecting technique.  Hardwood forests are their preferred haunts, under
logs, leaf litter.  They are carnivores which tend to have lower population
densities than non-carnivores for obvious reasons.  They are more abundant
where little snails are more abundant, limestone areas are good.  Roadsides
are good, at least in Florida, because of the abundance of Polygyra
cereolus and P. septemvolva.  I have had several lapses when I left a live
Euglandina in a collecting bag overnight with a bunch of live Polygyra only
to later find a empty Polygyra shells and a disgustingly obese Euglandina
lying in the corner belching with a wry grin below his cute little
mustache-like sensory organs.
As far as Emilio's comments on Liguus.  Why wrestle a snail as big as you
when you can eat all the Polygyra you want?  It's not worth the effort.
There are also a couple of reports of Liguus exuding a noxious mucus as a
deterrant to ant attacks.  Maybe they just taste bad.  I have found
Euglandina up about 8', but this is still below the usual preferred height
of Liguus.
In addition, some of the Hawaiian snails now missing or reduced from that
fauna naturally occur well above (altitudinally) the urban development.
Euglandina is not being improperly judged here.  It has caused a lot of
damage, albeit less than developers in the lowlands.
Euglandina has an eversible proboscis armed with wicked dagger-like radular
teeth.  They extrude the proboscis and enter the arperture of a live
Polygyra (or other snail) and eat it alive.  It must be a horrible death.
Euglandina is indeed a mean animal if you are a small snail.  I'm glad I'm
big and I seem to be getting bigger every day.
 
Hugs,
 
Kurt
 
At 10:26 PM 2/9/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Dear all, what is the habitat of Euglandina rosea?
>I tend to find them the most around Nandina bushes.
>Do they have some sort of relationship with this plant?
>I find them very hard to find, and I have only caught 1 or 2 alive
>so far, and the one i found today had no animal.
>Where should I look?
>
>Kind Regards James C.
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