Well, here in Eureka we haven't any climbing snails, but the other day I
found my dog Kuma, barking at an 10 inch giant yellow Banana Slug that was
crawling on one of our second story skylights. I may try to catch him/her
for next year's Banana Slug Derby. Now, will that do for a record story?
Dan


>Well, we don't get that here.  We have a few landsnails, but they stay
>buried (except the Helix aspersa) most of the time.  I have found a few
>interesting hitch hikers on plants at local nurseries.  But nothing on the
>roof.
>
>
>
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>Kay & Andrew
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>Subject: Re: Zachrysia on the roof
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>Dear Tom:
>
>I have also found some live land snails on the roof which could have
>hitch-hiked on birds as adults or as eggs: the European invader
>Bradybaena similaris; the southern hemisphear invader Subulina octona; and
>the native Polygyra cereolus. The arboreal Drymaeus multilineatus had
>obviously dropped from overhanging trees onto the roof during one of my
>visits to Dade County. I have also found many freshwater gastropods and
>bivalves which were clearly dined upon by birds. Stranger still, I have
>found Perna mussel and Quahog shells on the roof which were pilferred from
>restaurant dumpsters by seagulls and crows. Perna is invading us by sea and
>air!
>
>Yours, Andrew
>
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