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My wish for slugs and snails is that their eyesight improves with the passing of time. They deserve to see all the nice colours and shades of the garden around them. ❤
My wish for snail is that they grow a little flashing light on their shells so ppl see them when they cross and not squash them. But this aside, I’m a snail keeper of sorts and despite everyone saying that snails have poor eyesight I respectfully disagree. I pay attention closely to my snails and I see how they react to things and obstacles and it makes me believe they can actually see quite well, not to mention that they are nocturnal and go everywhere avoiding obstacles perfectly or I see them climbing on a higher pot and then stretch their body to look around in the distance or below. I love snails anyway very much they help me deal with anxiety I owe them so much I think they’re my spirit animal they’re so underrated. They’re always so peaceful, they don’t argue, they are friendly and curious and they have their routines and personalities. And unfortunately they often suffer silently without a voice or any help bc they get squashed or they get many horrible diseases and on top of it ppl don’t care for them and try to kill them just cos they want to look at pretty flowers for a couple weeks..
Brilliant. I've learned so much about snails in a matter of minutes, so a big Thanks to you! I remove snails from my garden and place them in the field over my wall. I'm only taking them perhaps 100 yards from where I find them but I'm quite convinced it's the same wee blighters that return. Years ago, my late father did a snail experiment - he put a dot of paint on the snails he removed from the garden. In fact, he used four different colours of paint depending on which position he located them - e.g.in the North, South, East or West of the garden. He then took them all off to a hedgerow some 1000 yards from the garden, an area that was part of our farm. Within a fortnight the snails had returned in all their painted glory. He noticed that they actually hung out with their 'friends' - the ones with the same coloured paint.He removed them once more and placed them farther away on his second trial. They returned yet again! Sadly my father is no longer here with us so I'm unable to conclude his findings, however, I certainly learned an enormous amount from you today. Please post similar videos. I'm sure we're all aching to learn more about all of the wonderful critters that we share our world with. Thanks again.
I had a snail with a broken shell that slept in my laburnum tree. I threw it over the fence (railway embankment) Next day it was back. I did this morning after morning & yes it kept returning. Bet it was really cross with me as probably took all night to get back 😅
That was full of such interesting information. I have lots of silver trails on my patio in this weather and often see the little baby snails amongst the flowers I don't like to kill any of them, sometimes I just pick them up and take them to the back of the garden 😊. Thanks Liam that was great.🐌
Your channel is pure gold, sir! And yes, definitely It'd be interesting to hear more about invertebrates and other more distantly related animals. If you'd be interested, it would also be interesting to hear some information about the animal's place in evolutionary tree :)
Another great show Liam, I've always loved these little guys. The ones in my garden have got a death wish , I've left them nice natural spaces in the garden but I have to keep rescuing them from the more exposed parts, especially as we have about 8 Magpies, 12 Crow's, a few Jackdaws , 40 to 70 Starlings, plus the usual assortment of garden visitors Tit's, Finches, Thurshs , Robin's & Blackbirds. My neighbour feeds his Dogs outside on some dry Dog food so at about four every day the Birds come down and all wait & fight on the garden fences, & a lot of the Starling's live in my chimney as I don't use the fireplace, a couple of times a year one will fall down & fly round the lounge , so we have to open the lounge & front door until they get the idea and leave , then it's out with the cleaning stuff. People say we should block the chimney, but I haven't the heart , they like living there & I'm not about to evict them . PEACE and LOVE to EVERYONE ❤❤.
We tend to know very little about invertebrates considering they are all around us, so it’s great Liam you have decided to put a spot light on these for a change. I find the more you look at these little critters, the more you find. They are really interesting. Thank you for covering these in your video. 👌🐌😊
i live in nine stories up in a block of flats - during a period of prolonged rainfall was doing the washing up & realised i was seeing a snail making its way up my kitchen window 🐌
Look man, for whatever reason I consider snails some of the most beautiful creatures on the planet, so I really enjoyed your exposition. Keep up the good work.
@@AShotOfWildlife I think they're fascinating but didn't know as much as I do now after watching your video. Used to have giant African Land Snails & they are quite beautiful sometimes.
Another informative video Liam. Snails are amazing and now I know more about them. Thank you very much. And yes I would love to see more content like this and invertebrates. ❤❤
Thanks, Liam, for another great and informative video! I think that every single snail (and slug) in the U.K. has passed through my garden at some point and they always head for the "all you can eat" buffet that are my Zantedeschia! I can spend hours on a wet evening picking them up on my trowel and slinging them into my next-door neighbour's garden. It would be great if you could do a video on the different species of slug to sit side-by-side with this video, because I also get quite a variety of slugs and I can't identify them.
Very enjoyable video 👍 I'm rather fond of the humble garden snail, land gastropods have been around for many millions of years ! I'm pushing 60 now and it does seem like there are fewer garden snails now than there were in the 70s and 80s....pesticides ?
I love invertebrates!!! Yesterday I found a vapourer moth caterpillar on my whitecurrant bushes! I don't have many snails in my garden! The snails I do have are quite small and rounded with green, yellow shells, i used to paint/mark my snails so i could keep an eye on the population 😂 i dont kill my snails, only the slugs!
Absolutely fascinating. You really nailed this one. While I already knew most of the things, I wouldn't at all have minded if the video had gone on for another half hour or two. Your enthusiasm and fascination really comes through, and this video sucked me in like nature documentaries used to do when I was a kid. Fantastic work!
I am lucky to live where the Scottish countryside is all around us and am a frequent hiker with a friend. I love nature and learning new information about wildlife of all descriptions, which makes for some very interesting discussions on our walks thankyou.
I like watching snails and find them fascinating .Years back in Junior school we had to learn about them lol Enjoyed your video and photography .Thanks Liam like #241and all the best from Helena
more invertebrates please, I never saw the larger Cornu aspersum snails growing up in the 70s,80s, they appeared here in the mid 1990s, we only had much smaller grey and black shelled snails before that, they seemed to appear in the area around the same time as spanish slugs and yellow banded snails, a lot of changes over a couple of decades.
Thank you. I have a few interesting species coming up (theyre all interesting but these are a bit different to things ive covered before) so stay tuned for those. Cheers!
Cheers Liam! Another huge great bundle of facts explained like a pro, with fantastic cinematography. My family love watching you, and we’ve learnt so much about nature from your channel, mainly things that we don’t always see, but we always have massive of respect for. Thank you 🙏
Thanks for sharing. I’ve always had a thing for snails. They appear pretty resilient and there is something relaxing and calming watching them on the move. I would even go as far as to say they are cute and not at all unattractive. Just watching the way their eyes and feelers wave around is quite endearing. I often pick one up for a bit of company and I like their fearless nature. I mean, there’s snaily sliding along on the floor in my garden at 1 in the morning and a giant hand plucks him up takes him into a well lit kitchen clutching onto a hairy arm. What’s he do. Pops his head out, stretches out his feelers and starts sliding up your arm, not a care in the world, navigating around the hairs. I always remember one session, a hair brushed gently across his left eye, well I say gently. Maybe not for snaily, he quickly retracted it and his right one curved round to have a look at what it was that poked him in his/her eye. My appreciation and admiration of these creatures doubled at that moment. Oh, and those hundreds of little teeth on their tongues, you can feel them on your skin quite clearly 😝👍
They are interesting. I love your story of how once poked in one eye, it turned its other eye to see what had poked it. I wonder what vision looks like for them with their eyes not only moving independently but also on stalks. Just the thought of it gives me vertigo!
@@AShotOfWildlife Ha Ha. Im a big lover all creatures, I have chipmunks as pets running around my house. Amazing animals. But, back onto snails. When they DO actually get around to bonking with another, they are at it for literally hours. After seeing them 'entwined' for over three hours whilst having beers in my garden, decided to pop an old clay plant pot over them (propped up on one side for escape, naturally) so they wouldn't get chomped on by a hungry blackbird mid coitus! Worse ways to go though, hey? 🙂
I’m very partial to snails, especially swirly decorated Grove snails, which change the colour of their shells depending on the colour of the vegetation in which they live. Ikeep these as pets. Lovely video. One should appreciate these little lovelies.
What a fantastic video, thank you so much. I never thought I would ever watch a video about snails. I have learnt a lot, thank you. And those baby snails are so cute. I will definitely see them differently from now on.
Oh My Gosh so interesting!! Awesome video! Thanks for some really good information. I have a bush in my front garden I call the Snail Hotel! So many snails come out each night from teeny tiny to quite big actually and they go to town on my forget me nots and other plants. I started putting different colored nail polish dots on their backs to help recognize them in the garden. It's so cool! My bf thinks I'm probably the only person on earth excited about having a front garden full of snails. Haha Thanks again!
Hi Liam brilliant video I didn’t know that about snails very interesting and I would definitely love to see more videos like that keep up with your brilliant work and videos Bernard
+++Brilliant video, thanks. My six year old son had a snail called Akabusi that he raced with his older brothers. He tried removing the shell to make it go faster but it made it sluggish. Based on a true story - Akabusi was unharmed during it's captivity and returned to the wild fit and well.
I love birds so I stumbled over your bird videos and really enjoy them. But you know what they say, know your enemy, so I'm gonna watch this one as well 😅
I`d like to add a couple of facts, firstly theres a trade in the eggs , snail caviar. and secondly, snails home, there was a citizen science experiment a few years ago where they marked snails with some fluorescent paint and moved them around the street and tracked them as they returned to their original garden!
This was very interesting. The only thing I feel that is missing is whether or not snails do any damage to gardens. What is their purpose? If known. I would like to see more videos like this. Did you do the taping yourself?
@@AShotOfWildlife (Neal typing!) I'll be honest I think it may be an urban legend about eating slugs.! (I have videos of the hogs kicking slugs off that are regularly eating his cat-biscuits (I now have *big* slugs travelling just for the biscuits!)! We do love this channel cheers, best wishes from Leicester! 🙂 (Patches &) NEAL 😀
Thank you Liam, yet another great video about the garden snail. Yes by all means do more of the same. And how about a video about British bat's. Thank you Liam keep them coming.
I use Snails and Slugs in my Compost Pile. I have a Plastic Cover used to protect our Grills from rain during winter and Spring when it’s too Cold to Grill. I keep the small Area Damp and it’s Full of a Variety of Different Insect species mostly those that feed on Decomposing Plant Matter. it’s my DYI Composting Pile Snails are Very efficient at breaking down old Banana Peels and Apple Cores Turning it into New Virgin Soil. Rich in Micro-bacteria that plants love they are useful Critters you Just don’t want them in the Garden itself.
Thank you. I didnt mention edible snails because theyre a different species which I have yet to find and film in the UK. One day, I will find some, film them and share it with you. Cheers
It's great to have a balance of types of species Liam. But what's great about films on invertebrates is that we don't ordinarily see thier processes of life as they are so tiny, and that's where the naturalist photographer (that's YOU!) comes in. Really interesting, I've learnt a few new things there! Nice one Liam. ⭐👍
This was brilliant! Where did you get all that footage. How we rush and hurry and bustle to achieve our goals. And yet the snail goes ever so slow but God guides it where it needs it to go.
Thank you. Some of the footage is my own but a lot of it is creative commons which I found on youtube(there are links to the originals in this videos description). With the fact files I usually use as much of my own as possible and then fill the gaps with CC footage.
A useful vid. would be one covering slug species which don't actually destroy gardeners crops but are detritivores.. eg. Limacus maculatus, or L. pseudoflavus etc. They do consume an interesting range of foods, some enter kitchens in search of cat/dog food and vegetable racks (non living plants!)
Yes, we get some coming into the house after out pet food. I think the limitation on me making that video would be if I can either film or get footage of the relevant species. I see garden snails all of the time but when t came to making this video, I needed a bit more footage and it was almost impossible to find even one to film!... Typical.
Hi Liam, quite challenging to get good film/photos os slugs at night due to reflective. moist surface! One Limacus species you can sometimes find up trees grazing algae. Difficult to tell the Limacus species apart but all basically olive green/yellow mottled and dont feed on garden crops in the garden. Compost heaps another good place to find them and (damp) pavements at night feeding on organic matter on the pavements! cheers Neil
I sometimes find them inside the house...a seemingly lifeless shell, stuck in some corner. But when I pluck them off the wall, they never fail to animate after a few minutes on the table: little eyes waving about when I transport them outside (now I know they can barely even see me). Maybe I'm jealous: home comfortably on your back; take a long snooze in your safe space, whenever; no lack of sexual partners...At any rate: thanks for these videos
Love to see a video on ants.....don't normally see many in my garden but this summer there are loads, with at least one nest under the patio and one in the compost heap
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My wish for slugs and snails is that their eyesight improves with the passing of time. They deserve to see all the nice colours and shades of the garden around them. ❤
One day they will!
My wish for snail is that they grow a little flashing light on their shells so ppl see them when they cross and not squash them.
But this aside, I’m a snail keeper of sorts and despite everyone saying that snails have poor eyesight I respectfully disagree. I pay attention closely to my snails and I see how they react to things and obstacles and it makes me believe they can actually see quite well, not to mention that they are nocturnal and go everywhere avoiding obstacles perfectly or I see them climbing on a higher pot and then stretch their body to look around in the distance or below. I love snails anyway very much they help me deal with anxiety I owe them so much I think they’re my spirit animal they’re so underrated. They’re always so peaceful, they don’t argue, they are friendly and curious and they have their routines and personalities. And unfortunately they often suffer silently without a voice or any help bc they get squashed or they get many horrible diseases and on top of it ppl don’t care for them and try to kill them just cos they want to look at pretty flowers for a couple weeks..
I adore snails
Me too
Me too😊
Brilliant. I've learned so much about snails in a matter of minutes, so a big Thanks to you!
I remove snails from my garden and place them in the field over my wall. I'm only taking them perhaps 100 yards from where I find them but I'm quite convinced it's the same wee blighters that return. Years ago, my late father did a snail experiment - he put a dot of paint on the snails he removed from the garden. In fact, he used four different colours of paint depending on which position he located them - e.g.in the North, South, East or West of the garden. He then took them all off to a hedgerow some 1000 yards from the garden, an area that was part of our farm. Within a fortnight the snails had returned in all their painted glory. He noticed that they actually hung out with their 'friends' - the ones with the same coloured paint.He removed them once more and placed them farther away on his second trial. They returned yet again! Sadly my father is no longer here with us so I'm unable to conclude his findings, however, I certainly learned an enormous amount from you today. Please post similar videos. I'm sure we're all aching to learn more about all of the wonderful critters that we share our world with. Thanks again.
I had a snail with a broken shell that slept in my laburnum tree. I threw it over the fence (railway embankment) Next day it was back. I did this morning after morning & yes it kept returning. Bet it was really cross with me as probably took all night to get back 😅
That was full of such interesting information. I have lots of silver trails on my patio in this weather and often see the little baby snails amongst the flowers I don't like to kill any of them, sometimes I just pick them up and take them to the back of the garden 😊. Thanks Liam that was great.🐌
Every life matters, even that of snails! Thank you
@@rontheretiredone that's what I think as well 🙂. Have a nice weekend.
Your channel is pure gold, sir! And yes, definitely It'd be interesting to hear more about invertebrates and other more distantly related animals. If you'd be interested, it would also be interesting to hear some information about the animal's place in evolutionary tree :)
I still feel really guilty when I accidentally tread on one. Fascinating little creatures.
Same here! Awful sound too!
Me too! I even say "sorry". These days, I move them out of the way first when I feed my rabbits at night, so I don't accidentally step on them. 🤷♀️
These videos are so informative and great, showing that everything in nature small or big is beautiful and unique, great work!
Another great show Liam, I've always loved these little guys. The ones in my garden have got a death wish , I've left them nice natural spaces in the garden but I have to keep rescuing them from the more exposed parts, especially as we have about 8 Magpies, 12 Crow's, a few Jackdaws , 40 to 70 Starlings, plus the usual assortment of garden visitors Tit's, Finches, Thurshs , Robin's & Blackbirds. My neighbour feeds his Dogs outside on some dry Dog food so at about four every day the Birds come down and all wait & fight on the garden fences, & a lot of the Starling's live in my chimney as I don't use the fireplace, a couple of times a year one will fall down & fly round the lounge , so we have to open the lounge & front door until they get the idea and leave , then it's out with the cleaning stuff. People say we should block the chimney, but I haven't the heart , they like living there & I'm not about to evict them . PEACE and LOVE to EVERYONE ❤❤.
We tend to know very little about invertebrates considering they are all around us, so it’s great Liam you have decided to put a spot light on these for a change. I find the more you look at these little critters, the more you find. They are really interesting. Thank you for covering these in your video. 👌🐌😊
Fascinating! More like this, please. Thanks!🐌🐌🐌
i live in nine stories up in a block of flats - during a period of prolonged rainfall was doing the washing up & realised i was seeing a snail making its way up my kitchen window 🐌
Look man, for whatever reason I consider snails some of the most beautiful creatures on the planet, so I really enjoyed your exposition. Keep up the good work.
Awesome little creatures, the slow worms in my garden love them too. Thank you Liam 😊
Cheers! I enjoyed making this one as I've never paid too much attention to snails before, it was great to learn as I wrote this script.
@@AShotOfWildlife I think they're fascinating but didn't know as much as I do now after watching your video. Used to have giant African Land Snails & they are quite beautiful sometimes.
Absolutely loved this one Liam and it would be great to have more like this (alongside your usual wonderful content of course).
Another informative video Liam. Snails are amazing and now I know more about them. Thank you very much. And yes I would love to see more content like this and invertebrates. ❤❤
Thanks, Liam, for another great and informative video! I think that every single snail (and slug) in the U.K. has passed through my garden at some point and they always head for the "all you can eat" buffet that are my Zantedeschia! I can spend hours on a wet evening picking them up on my trowel and slinging them into my next-door neighbour's garden. It would be great if you could do a video on the different species of slug to sit side-by-side with this video, because I also get quite a variety of slugs and I can't identify them.
Always good to see you in another video, and this format is great for a quick break from the usual YT goofiness. Thanks!
Very enjoyable video 👍 I'm rather fond of the humble garden snail, land gastropods have been around for many millions of years ! I'm pushing 60 now and it does seem like there are fewer garden snails now than there were in the 70s and 80s....pesticides ?
I love invertebrates!!! Yesterday I found a vapourer moth caterpillar on my whitecurrant bushes! I don't have many snails in my garden! The snails I do have are quite small and rounded with green, yellow shells, i used to paint/mark my snails so i could keep an eye on the population 😂 i dont kill my snails, only the slugs!
Snails are often overlooked, so thanks for this.
Absolutely fascinating. You really nailed this one.
While I already knew most of the things, I wouldn't at all have minded if the video had gone on for another half hour or two.
Your enthusiasm and fascination really comes through, and this video sucked me in like nature documentaries used to do when I was a kid.
Fantastic work!
@@tamarharris9611 You could say so. 🙂
I felt obliged to resist the pun to try to convey my sincerity, but it hurt when it was right there.
I am lucky to live where the Scottish countryside is all around us and am a frequent hiker with a friend. I love nature and learning new information about wildlife of all descriptions, which makes for some very interesting discussions on our walks thankyou.
I often talk with my snails in the garden area for hours and hours they are super intelligent and they don't argue it's not in their DNA
I like watching snails and find them fascinating .Years back in Junior school we had to learn about them lol
Enjoyed your video and photography .Thanks Liam like #241and all the best from Helena
I love anything about all kinds of wildlife....so looking forward to whatever you come up with next!
Liked this one too. Slimy but beautiful creatures. Nice one
more invertebrates please, I never saw the larger Cornu aspersum snails growing up in the 70s,80s, they appeared here in the mid 1990s, we only had much smaller grey and black shelled snails before that, they seemed to appear in the area around the same time as spanish slugs and yellow banded snails, a lot of changes over a couple of decades.
Snails are sooo beautyful and fantastic
Love this. More please it all wildlife. Thank you
Thank you. I have a few interesting species coming up (theyre all interesting but these are a bit different to things ive covered before) so stay tuned for those. Cheers!
Cheers Liam! Another huge great bundle of facts explained like a pro, with fantastic cinematography. My family love watching you, and we’ve learnt so much about nature from your channel, mainly things that we don’t always see, but we always have massive of respect for. Thank you 🙏
Snails are so adorable
It was a interesting video.
Thanks.
Greetings Jacq 🙋♀️🌷🦌
Thank Jarq!
It was very informative and yes, please, could we have some more? Many thanks.
Who knew there was so much to know about snails! Great video, thank you.
Thank you very much, Im glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks for sharing. I’ve always had a thing for snails. They appear pretty resilient and there is something relaxing and calming watching them on the move. I would even go as far as to say they are cute and not at all unattractive. Just watching the way their eyes and feelers wave around is quite endearing. I often pick one up for a bit of company and I like their fearless nature. I mean, there’s snaily sliding along on the floor in my garden at 1 in the morning and a giant hand plucks him up takes him into a well lit kitchen clutching onto a hairy arm.
What’s he do. Pops his head out, stretches out his feelers and starts sliding up your arm, not a care in the world, navigating around the hairs. I always remember one session, a hair brushed gently across his left eye, well I say gently. Maybe not for snaily, he quickly retracted it and his right one curved round to have a look at what it was that poked him in his/her eye. My appreciation and admiration of these creatures doubled at that moment. Oh, and those hundreds of little teeth on their tongues, you can feel them on your skin quite clearly 😝👍
They are interesting. I love your story of how once poked in one eye, it turned its other eye to see what had poked it. I wonder what vision looks like for them with their eyes not only moving independently but also on stalks. Just the thought of it gives me vertigo!
@@AShotOfWildlife Ha Ha. Im a big lover all creatures, I have chipmunks as pets running around my house. Amazing animals. But, back onto snails. When they DO actually get around to bonking with another, they are at it for literally hours. After seeing them 'entwined' for over three hours whilst having beers in my garden, decided to pop an old clay plant pot over them (propped up on one side for escape, naturally) so they wouldn't get chomped on by a hungry blackbird mid coitus! Worse ways to go though, hey? 🙂
All your videos are fascinating whatever the species. One of the best channels actually … thank you 🙏
I think you've led me up the garden path with this one
I’m very partial to snails, especially swirly decorated Grove snails, which change the colour of their shells depending on the colour of the vegetation in which they live. Ikeep these as pets. Lovely video. One should appreciate these little lovelies.
Love it. Give give give me more more more I like more! Great work thank you.
Thank you, i'll keep them coming!
Adorable little fella
Brilliant video , so so interesting .
Great! Yes, more please Liam!🌞
Brilliant as usual, I look forward to each fascinating video you produce 👌
What a fantastic video, thank you so much. I never thought I would ever watch a video about snails. I have learnt a lot, thank you. And those baby snails are so cute. I will definitely see them differently from now on.
Thank you, very intereting, well presented and brilliant close-ups.
This Video about Snales is very useful to know about them, so much interesting information I get here.. Thanks .
So fascinating, great vid! 🔥❤️
Cheers!
Whenever l can learn something about nature....l am HAPPY!! So thank you!!
Another great vid Liam. Thanks so much. More invertebrates? Ooh, yes please. 🙂
Excellent snap shot! Very informative and would love to hear more 👏😀👍
I love your videos and its great to watch them with my grandchildren. Nice to see something educational on RUclips.
Oh My Gosh so interesting!! Awesome video! Thanks for some really good information. I have a bush in my front garden I call the Snail Hotel! So many snails come out each night from teeny tiny to quite big actually and they go to town on my forget me nots and other plants. I started putting different colored nail polish dots on their backs to help recognize them in the garden. It's so cool! My bf thinks I'm probably the only person on earth excited about having a front garden full of snails. Haha Thanks again!
The baby snails are cute!
Definitely more invertebrates please! Especially ones that were introduced over here! 😂
Love all this info!! Have always been fascinated by snails and now I know why 😃
Yes please, more videos on invertebrates.
Hi Liam brilliant video I didn’t know that about snails very interesting and I would definitely love to see more videos like that keep up with your brilliant work and videos Bernard
Amazing little creatures. You can hear them eating at night. Didn’t realise they had that many teeth.
I love snails ❤
Really good, thank you! More crawly and bug videos please 😊
Thank you! I'll definitely do more soon.
+++Brilliant video, thanks.
My six year old son had a snail called Akabusi that he raced with his older brothers. He tried removing the shell to make it go faster but it made it sluggish. Based on a true story - Akabusi was unharmed during it's captivity and returned to the wild fit and well.
I love birds so I stumbled over your bird videos and really enjoy them. But you know what they say, know your enemy, so I'm gonna watch this one as well 😅
Haha, well hopefully you know more about them now.
... Love Snails, excellent and informative video. 🐌👏👏👏
Well I never knew that! Fabulous subject,more on this please 👍
I`d like to add a couple of facts,
firstly theres a trade in the eggs , snail caviar.
and secondly, snails home, there was a citizen science experiment a few years ago where they marked snails with some fluorescent paint and moved them around the street and tracked them as they returned to their original garden!
Great video about snails, and at the end the heads-up about your video on song thrushes 😆🤭 Run snails, run! 😬
another fascinating fact file. Liam so amazing to find out more about different animals including invertebrates. awesome work :)
A slug is the mollusc equivalent of a motorcyclist who eschews the wearing of a crash helmet.
This was very interesting. The only thing I feel that is missing is whether or not snails do any damage to gardens. What is their purpose? If known.
I would like to see more videos like this. Did you do the taping yourself?
Interesting video. I didn't know they had 14000 teeth! All videos on British wildlife are welcomed by me, regardless of the type of animal!
Lové It! Thousands of teeth! Who knew?!
Mmmmmm, tasty!!! 🙂
Great channel, great info and great presentation. Superb 😀
Haha, thank you. Just seen a hedgehog this evening in the same place I filmed some of this video... maybe less snails there now.
@@AShotOfWildlife (Neal typing!)
I'll be honest I think it may be an urban legend about eating slugs.!
(I have videos of the hogs kicking slugs off that are regularly eating his cat-biscuits (I now have *big* slugs travelling just for the biscuits!)!
We do love this channel cheers, best wishes from Leicester! 🙂
(Patches &) NEAL 😀
Thank you Liam, yet another great video about the garden snail. Yes by all means do more of the same. And how about a video about British bat's. Thank you Liam keep them coming.
I use Snails and Slugs in my Compost Pile. I have a Plastic Cover used to protect our Grills from rain during winter and Spring when it’s too Cold to Grill. I keep the small Area Damp and it’s Full of a Variety of Different Insect species mostly those that feed on Decomposing Plant Matter. it’s my DYI Composting Pile Snails are Very efficient at breaking down old Banana Peels and Apple Cores Turning it into New Virgin Soil. Rich in Micro-bacteria that plants love they are useful Critters you Just don’t want them in the Garden itself.
ONG TIS HELPS SO MUCH!! I found a giant garden snail! It was an inch long!!
You didn't mention edible snails. However a very nicely presented version. Thanks
Thank you. I didnt mention edible snails because theyre a different species which I have yet to find and film in the UK. One day, I will find some, film them and share it with you. Cheers
Love your little essays! Thanks mate
So interesting and calming to watch this 😊 thank you
Very nice video awsome facts of snails
Amazing! I have a snail I’ve called Super Turbo. He/She/They are so pampered.
It's great to have a balance of types of species Liam. But what's great about films on invertebrates is that we don't ordinarily see thier processes of life as they are so tiny, and that's where the naturalist photographer (that's YOU!) comes in. Really interesting, I've learnt a few new things there! Nice one Liam. ⭐👍
Thank you. I am going to continue with a diverse assortment of wildlife in these videos and have some interesting ones coming up. Cheers!
Such an interesting video ⭐️
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
This was brilliant! Where did you get all that footage. How we rush and hurry and bustle to achieve our goals. And yet the snail goes ever so slow but God guides it where it needs it to go.
Thank you. Some of the footage is my own but a lot of it is creative commons which I found on youtube(there are links to the originals in this videos description). With the fact files I usually use as much of my own as possible and then fill the gaps with CC footage.
Thanks! Liam🐌
You're welcome :)
Thank you for this
Just subscribed
Your content is informative and relaxing to watch
Thank you so much and a belated welcome to the channel! I hope you have found lots of videos that you enjoy here.
That was very interesting ,I have learnt a lot . Thankyou 😊
So interesting, thank you!
Thank you!
I like snails 🐌 they are cute.
They are a nightmare as they can wreak havoc in my garden but I have a soft spot for them and think they are verrrry cuTTe(!) D: :3
And they are all called "Brian".
Liam, another excellent overview of everyday nature. I would definitely be in favour of more content on invertebrates. Alan 4:20
Thanks for this video very interesting and informative.
Hi Liam, I'm up for learning about any UK wildlife. Love the vids and thank you for what you do.
Thanks Nathan. Im going to carry on making a variety of wildlife vids so I hope youll stick around for some of them. Cheers
This was so interesting - thank you.
Love these mate, keep it up
Thank you!
A useful vid. would be one covering slug species which don't actually destroy gardeners crops but are detritivores.. eg. Limacus maculatus, or L. pseudoflavus etc. They do consume an interesting range of foods, some enter kitchens in search of cat/dog food and vegetable racks (non living plants!)
Yes, we get some coming into the house after out pet food. I think the limitation on me making that video would be if I can either film or get footage of the relevant species. I see garden snails all of the time but when t came to making this video, I needed a bit more footage and it was almost impossible to find even one to film!... Typical.
Hi Liam, quite challenging to get good film/photos os slugs at night due to reflective. moist surface! One Limacus species you can sometimes find up trees grazing algae. Difficult to tell the Limacus species apart but all basically olive green/yellow mottled and dont feed on garden crops in the garden. Compost heaps another good place to find them and (damp) pavements at night feeding on organic matter on the pavements! cheers Neil
I sometimes find them inside the house...a seemingly lifeless shell, stuck in some corner. But when I pluck them off the wall, they never fail to animate after a few minutes on the table: little eyes waving about when I transport them outside (now I know they can barely even see me). Maybe I'm jealous: home comfortably on your back; take a long snooze in your safe space, whenever; no lack of sexual partners...At any rate: thanks for these videos
Wonderful thanks.
Those baby snails 🥰
Love to see a video on ants.....don't normally see many in my garden but this summer there are loads, with at least one nest under the patio and one in the compost heap