Magnolia threetooth
Triodopsis hopetonensis
The magnolia threetooth is a small land snail that breathes air. It likes damp places, from wet woods to roadsides and even towns. It is common in the southeastern United States.
Fun fact: this one is not an insect at all, it has no legs! But kids find it on every bug hunt, so it lives in Bug Wiki too.
Lives in
Southeastern United States, from Maryland to Louisiana, in damp places
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Wash your hands after holding a snail, like after touching any wild animal.
What does it eat?
Like other land snails, it eats plants and soft rotting plant bits, scraping them with its rough tongue.
How fast is it?
Magnolia threetooth about 0.03 km/h (0.02 mph)
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It hides in and under rotting logs and even in piles of old building wood.
2
It travels to new towns by hitching a ride in wood that people carry to building sites.
3
It is spreading fast to the north and east, and is now found in eastern Texas too.
4
It is common in many states but very rare in West Virginia.
you asked
Most asked questions about Magnolia threetooth
?Where does the magnolia threetooth live?
In the southeastern United States, in damp woods, grassy places, roadsides and towns.
?Is the magnolia threetooth dangerous?
No. It is a harmless little land snail.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Triodopsis hopetonensis
- Group
- Snails, slugs and worms
- Family
- Polygyridae
- Classification
- Gastropoda > Stylommatophora > Polygyridae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Triodopsis hopetonensis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Tim Ross. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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