I guess Florida Fire Ants have no class.   They will clean any shell.



On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Carol Simpson wrote:

> I had a similar thing happen with a large whelk.  I put it on an any hill
> and they wouldn't touch it!  Being discouraged, I threw it in the Lake in
> front of our house when the water was high...having no idea it would stay
> there.  Three months later, the water level dropped and there was my whelk
> (looking sorta ridiculous seeing a knobbed whelk sitting on the shore of a
> fresh water lake)
>
> There was not one ounce of anything left in it!  I never thought of this
> method of cleaning shells.  But I'll remember it in the future.  Don't know
> if fish or turtles got the meat--probably little fish.
>
> Carol
> -----Original Message-----
> From: G Thomas Watters <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Monday, July 26, 1999 11:02 AM
> Subject: freeze-dried snails
>
>
> >I recently defrosted a large bag of snails from the beer refrigerator in
> >the garage. They (the snails, not the beer) have been in there for 14 years
> >and are quite freeze-dried. I placed them outside to "soften" but they are
> >so desiccated that they are still mummified after a month of 90+
> >temperatures and near 100% humidity. Ants, flies, chipmunks, even the
> >raccoons won't touch them. I hesitate to "reconstitute" them in water as I
> >fear they will turn into a putrifying mess. Has anyone any experience with
> >this situation? We're talking big snails - Busycon, Strombus, etc.
> >
> >
> >*****************************************
> > G Thomas Watters
> > Ohio Biological Survey &
> > Aquatic Ecology Laboratory
> > Ohio State University
> > 1315 Kinnear Road
> > Columbus, OH 43212 USA
> > v: 614-292-6170  f: 614-292-0181
> >******************************************
> >
> >"The world is my oyster except for months with an 'R' in them" - Firesign
> >Theater
> >
> >"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he
> >has to buy a license" - GTW
>