Copse snail
The copse snail is a medium-sized snail with a round brown shell covered in rows of tiny yellow speckles. The soft snail inside is usually black. It loves damp places and lives in many countries in Europe, Estonia too.
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Fun facts
It is a real slowpoke. In a whole year it usually travels only about 7 to 12 metres.
It can live up to 14 years, which is a long life for a snail.
In Switzerland there can be up to 20 of them on one square metre of ground.
In one Finnish town it became so common that people named it after the town and call it the Porvoo snail.
It can live high up in the Alps, at 2700 metres above the sea.
Most asked questions about Copse snail
?How long does a copse snail live?
It takes 2 to 4 years to grow up and can live up to 14 years.
?What does a copse snail eat?
Mostly green plants, but also dead animals and droppings.
?How big is a copse snail?
Its shell is about 2 centimetres wide, about the size of a big grape.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Arianta arbustorum
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Snails, slugs and worms
- Family
- Helicidae
- Classification
- Gastropoda > Stylommatophora > Helicidae
- Lives on
- Europe, North America
Where the facts come from
- Arianta arbustorum (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 Arnstein Rønning. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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