The massive house eating snails

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They can eat houses?

@DKaoshuing

Not native to but are here and may eat the walls of your house,

@DKaoshuing

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@QuaSaShao

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We got zero harvest a snails ate all my plants…f*@!ers
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Do you use covered beds much? Would they have stopped the escargot from pillaging your crop?

I’m using raised, covered beds here in Hokkaido for the first time with all my leafy vegetables and it seems to have stopped the leaf nibblers cold.

Not in the sense you are. We have raised riws, but only 20~30 cm. I agree raised beds are wonderful, but the costs would be too high for us to make them.

They wont stop them though. We find snails on 3rd and 4rh floors here eating the concrete.

I would think in Hokkaido its less sever due to colder temps. My only snail issue is with african land snails. Those things are somethun else. All the small native ones i can live with their damage is minimal.

This is what hate looks like:

BIG !

No. They can shave of thin layers of concrete to get calcium and minerals for shell building. The eating house myth is more from the SE USA where they have wood frame houses and thin stucko type sheets on top. Because their house’ concrete layers are so thin, it is plausible to cause meaningful damage. Taiwans 20cm plus thick concrete walls are not of concern. especially with the cuturally acceptable vare garden/yard style compared to the US garden style. Our food security is though.