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Posted by Klara on May 11, 2007, 11:27 am
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options >Something rather odd I noticed last year. May be that its common
>knowledge, but not to me.
>
>We have a garden path running up the centre of our garden and on the
>one side is the vegetable patch, on the other, the garden proper.
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>What I found was, if you walked up the path in the early morning you
>would see the snails going across the path from the garden to the
>vegetable patch side whilst in the evening they went the other way.
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>There were the odd ones that went the other way around but they were
>by far the minority.
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>Seems to me snails must have a regular "sleeping place".
I am sure they have such habits (supposedly they follow their own slime
trail back). They also 'home' to some extent: I collected lots one year,
put a dab of white paint on them, then let them go about 100 yards
behind our house. In a week or so several of them were back!
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Klara, Gatwick basin
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