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Chocolate-band snail

Eobania vermiculata
Eats: PlantsSnails, slugs and wormsGardens and meadowsNo legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin

The chocolate-band snail is a big land snail with a round shell. Its shell is whitish to greenish yellow, often with brown chocolate coloured bands or spots. Around the opening of the shell it has a smooth white lip.

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
Around the Mediterranean Sea, and now also in Australia, the USA and other countries, in dry plants near the coast and on farms
Length
2.2 to 3.2 cm (0.87 to 1.3 in)
the width of the shell
Top speed
about 0.03 km/h (0.02 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 it can also nibble farm crops.
For real!Photo of Chocolate-band snail
Picture by Andrey Butko. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How big is it?

How long is it?

Chocolate-band snail about 3.2 cm long (1.3 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 5 grains of rice in a rowneeds 2 minutes to cross a dinner table

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cool stuff

Fun facts

1

A snail lays around 70 eggs at a time.

2

The baby snails grow about 1 centimetre wider each year for two years.

3

It can survive cold winters in countries like Belgium and the Netherlands.

4

In the USA people worry it could become a pest on farms.

you asked

Most asked questions about Chocolate-band snail

?What does the chocolate-band snail eat?

It eats plants, and sometimes farm crops.

?How big is the chocolate-band snail?

Its shell is about 2 to 3 centimetres wide.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Eobania vermiculata
Group
Snails, slugs and worms
Family
Helicidae
Classification
Gastropoda > Stylommatophora > Helicidae
Lives on
Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania, North America

Where the facts come from

  1. Eobania vermiculata (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 Andrey Butko. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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