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Wrinkled snail

Xeroplexa intersecta
Eats: PlantsSnails, slugs and wormsGardens and meadowsNo legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin

The wrinkled snail is a small land snail with a round, whitish or yellowish shell. Its shell has brown bands or spots and very fine lines. Its soft body is yellowish or bluish grey.

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
Western and Central Europe, and now also in parts of America, Australia and New Zealand
Length
0.7 to 1.2 cm (0.28 to 0.47 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?
It eats plants, and on farms it can sometimes become a pest.
For real!Photo of Wrinkled snail
Picture by Ultima orexana. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How big is it?

How long is it?

Wrinkled snail about 1.2 cm long (0.47 in)A grain of rice about 6 mm (0.24 in)A toy building brick about 3.2 cm (1.3 in)
as long as 2 grains of rice in a rowneeds 3 minutes to cross a dinner table

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cool stuff

Fun facts

1

Its shell has five rounded turns.

2

Its top pair of feelers is long, but the bottom pair is very short.

3

It comes from countries like Great Britain, Ireland, France and Spain, but people have carried it to Oregon, Chile, Colombia, Australia and New Zealand.

you asked

Most asked questions about Wrinkled snail

?How big is the wrinkled snail?

Small. Its shell is about 7 to 12 millimetres wide.

?Is the wrinkled snail a pest?

Sometimes. On farms it can eat crops and become a pest.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Xeroplexa intersecta
Group
Snails, slugs and worms
Family
Geomitridae
Classification
Gastropoda > Stylommatophora > Geomitridae
Lives on
Europe, North America, South America, Australia and Oceania

Where the facts come from

  1. Xeroplexa intersecta (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 Ultima orexana. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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