PHOTOGRAPHY: Macro Of Snails In My Garden

SNAILS

They are gastropods that have coiled shell that protects them from their outside world. The shell is large enough for them to immediately retract into when being attacked or when external forces make them go hiding inside. The word snail is the common name for a mollusc.

They can be found in every garden especially after the rain when everything is wet. Although they are less harmful than the slugs, they could also kill smaller plants. The slugs on the other hand are the ones that are very devastating since an overnight attack can kill a plant. The last winter had been very hard... so I hope the slugs won´t come this season.

I found these two snails on the leaves of the wild vine, the one is as big as my thumbnail and the smaller one as big as my smallest finger nail. They sometimes climb up my tamarisk tree trying to reach the two hanging fuchsia on its branches. When I brought home some of the wildflowers I picked last Sunday, there were some newly hatched snails and I just simply put them on the ground.

There are some varieties of the snails that can be eaten.. As a young girl, we oftentimes went to the rice fields that were full of rainwater and gathered some since they all surfaced on top after the rain. It was an easy thing to do and we went home with plastic bags full of them. My mother would cook them and my brothers enjoyed since it is a delicacy. The type that we gathered were bigger ones with dark brown or black shells. Here in Vienna I heard that there is a specific large size, a slug-like variety that can be eaten, cooked and eaten with a vinaigrette or garlic sauce.

How about you? Do you eat snails? If yes, what type and how do you cook them?

Source reference : https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail

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Camera: Photos 1 & 2 were shot using Samsung J5 with a macro removable lens I attached to the phone camera. For Photos 3 & 4 , I used Canon EOS 1200D with macro extension lens.

Thanks to @gremayo for providing the GIF