> -----Original Message-----
> From: G Thomas Watters [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 07:54
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Cocliocopa lubrica

> I was once forwarded a jar of hundreds of Cochlicopa lubrica
> from a man who
> said there were millions of them in the wet leaves in the
> rain gutters of
> his house.


That's interesting. How & why did they get up to his roof? I suppose
hatchlings are small enough to be wind blown.


> On another topic, how much is known of what North American
> snails do for
> the winter? I thought many were "annuals" but the Webbhelix
> multilineata
> adults from last year have just emerged from the leaf litter in their
> outdoor terrarium, which I thought had frozen solid.


Most "larger" snails seem to take at least a few years to become adults, so
they have to survive the winter. As a matter of fact some, at least
Anguispira, require a cold period before they can reproduce. I collect even
in the dead of the winter & I have seen dormant snails of all sizes under
rotting trunks above frozen soil.

Aydin