Maybe the snails live in the ant nests.

Aydin

>-----Original Message-----
>From: uri bar-zeev [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 2:27 AM
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>Subject: ants and landshells
>
>
>Dear Land-Sheller's
>
>While I was looking after land shells, I "discovered" that there are
>Plenty of empty shells in the grit of seeds around Ants nest.
>Most of them are of the kind of Euchondrus septemdentatus,
>which looks very
>much like a wheat grain by itself.
>Now my question is - why?
>Were they collected by the ants as 'seeds' and than
>disappointedly removed?
>Or were they collected as nutrition for the ants?
>Or maybe dug out by the ants while digging their nest?
>Are you familiar with these phenomena?
>Please shed some light ;-)
>Regards - uri
>