Dear Kurt, Thank you for the information and you are right! The Euglandina rosea don't seem to be abundant anywhere in South Florida. However, you could easily collect dozens on a single morning on Raiatea, French Polynesia, a few years ago. This is related to the population explosion effect which many exotic species undergo when they are first introduced into a new area. I was mistakenly using the abundance of the snail in Polynesia as the standard when I sent out the request, and was assuming the populations would be equally as abundant in Florida. I am not going back to Polynesia soon, unless I win the Lottery so I would still like to obtain 10 or more animals to have enough of a sample size so the results of the testing would be valid. I have run some preliminary tests on a single adult snail, and the results are encouraging. I would love to get some more specimens to continue the work. The snail is doing well after 3 weeks on a diet of Subulina, and I could feed about a dozen more Euglandina. The E's are easy to ship. You just let them attach to a substrate, dry out and seal off overnight, wrap them in several layers of Kleenex, put them in a small, crush proof cardboard box, and mail them off on a two day express delivery. I'm offering a $10 per snail honorarium, which is enough to cover the postage, and still buy a 25 cent cigar! I would appreciate the help of anyone who stumbles across this animal. Cordially, Roger > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Auffenberg [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 12:35 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Need Living Euglandina rosea > > Roger, > I'll keep my eyes open, but like most carnivores, Euglandina are few and > far between. I usually find one here, one there. Not ten or 20. > > To those members living in SW FL . . . .You have the highest densities of > Euglandina rosea I've seen in the state....roadside ditches. Hey, what > else could you guys possibly have on your agendas this weekend?? Don't go > see StarWars again. > > Kurt > > At 11:44 AM 6/23/99 -0500, you wrote: > >Dear Members, > >I need about 10-20 living Euglandina rosea, the rosy glandina or rosy > >wolfsnail from the southeastern US to run tests on a snail repellent made > >from hot pepper extract. We would like to set up a fiberglass panel > >exclosure in a Polynesian forest where endemic Partula snails used to > occur > >and re-introduce them from captive breeding stocks. Unfortunately, the > >introduced predator Euglandina is still present in small numbers there. > If a > >cheap and environmentally friendly snail repellant can be found, the > >reserves can be set up inexpensively. Hence the need for the live > Euglandina > >test snails. > >Can anyone supply some live specimens? > >Thank you for any help, Roger Klocek > >