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Strawberry snail

Trochulus striolatus
Eats: PlantsSnails, slugs and wormsGardens and meadowsNo legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin

The strawberry snail is a small land snail that breathes air. Its round shell can be whitish, yellow-brown or reddish-brown, often with a pale stripe around the edge. When it is young, its shell is a little bit hairy.

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
Northwestern Europe, such as Britain, Ireland and the Netherlands
Length
1 to 1.5 cm (0.39 to 0.59 in)
the width of the shell
Top speed
about 0.02 km/h (0.01 mph)
On foot, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Wash your hands after holding one, like after touching any wild animal.
What does it eat?
Like other land snails, it nibbles on plants.
For real!Photo of Strawberry snail
Picture by H. Zell. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How big is it?

How long is it?

Strawberry snail about 1.5 cm long (0.59 in)A grain of rice about 6 mm (0.24 in)A toy building brick about 3.2 cm (1.3 in)A crayon about 9 cm (3.5 in)
as long as 2.5 grains of rice in a rowneeds 3 minutes to cross a dinner table

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cool stuff

Fun facts

1

A young strawberry snail has scattered hairs on its shell. When it grows up, the hairs are gone.

2

Before two snails mate, they poke each other with a tiny dart called a love dart.

3

Its shell has a sharp edge running around the outside, often with a pale band on it.

4

It lives in Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands and Slovakia.

you asked

Most asked questions about Strawberry snail

?How big is a strawberry snail?

Its shell is about 10 to 15 millimetres wide, about as big as a fingernail.

?Where does the strawberry snail live?

In northwestern Europe, for example in Britain, Ireland and the Netherlands.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Trochulus striolatus
Group
Snails, slugs and worms
Family
Hygromiidae
Classification
Gastropoda > Stylommatophora > Hygromiidae
Lives on
Europe

Where the facts come from

  1. Trochulus striolatus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
  2. Picture by H. Zell. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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