Lesser bulin
The lesser bulin is a small land snail with a tall, pointy brown shell. Its shell is only about as tall as your fingernail is wide. It crawls along holding its shell up very high, like a little tower on its back.
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Fun facts
Its shell is about 1 centimetre tall and has six turns, like a spiral staircase.
It is often hidden by camouflage, so it is very hard to spot.
A mother snail lays 12 to 20 small oval eggs, and the babies hatch after about two weeks.
Look for it on tree trunks, on walls, and under stones and fallen leaves.
Most asked questions about Lesser bulin
?Where does the lesser bulin live?
In shady, rocky woods in most of Europe and in north west Africa, on tree trunks, walls and under stones.
?How big is the lesser bulin?
Its shell is about 1 centimetre tall and only 3 to 4 millimetres wide.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Merdigera obscura
- Group
- Snails, slugs and worms
- Family
- Enidae
- Classification
- Gastropoda > Stylommatophora > Enidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa
Where the facts come from
- Merdigera obscura (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 Michal Maňas. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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