Rosy wolfsnail
The rosy wolfsnail has a long, pointy, pinkish brown shell. Most snails eat plants, but this one is a hunter. It follows the slime trails of other snails and slugs to find them, and then eats them.
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Fun facts
For a snail it is fast. It can glide about 8 millimetres every second.
It spends most of its life following slime trails, to find food and to find other wolfsnails.
In 1955 people brought it to Hawaii to eat a pest snail. Instead it ate the rare local snails, and several kinds died out.
It can push its toothy tongue out past its mouth, right into its prey.
It sleeps through the winter and comes out again in April or May.
Most asked questions about Rosy wolfsnail
?What does the rosy wolfsnail eat?
Other snails and slugs. It tracks them by following their slime trails.
?Why is it called the cannibal snail?
Because it eats other snails, swallowing small ones whole.
?How big is a rosy wolfsnail?
A grown-up is about 7 to 10 centimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euglandina rosea
- Group
- Snails, slugs and worms
- Family
- Spiraxidae
- Classification
- Gastropoda > Stylommatophora > Spiraxidae
- Lives on
- North America, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Cannibal snail
Where the facts come from
- Euglandina rosea (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 Dylan Parker. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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