What kind of food does snail eat?

Snail is the general name of snail genus of Gastropoda in the mollusk phylum. It is endemic to China and is distributed in the lakes of Yunnan and Jiangsu provinces. It creeps on the bottom of the lake with broad feet, the meat is delicious, and snail yellow (male gonad) is a favorite food for people. Let's take a look at what snails eat.

What kind of food does snail eat?

Snails are omnivorous, eating microorganisms in water, young stems and leaves of aquatic plants or organic detritus.

The living habits of snails

1. Reproductive habits: snails are dioecious, male and female can also be distinguished from the shape of antennae in appearance. Viviparous, eggs are fertilized and developed in the mother's nursery, and are not excreted until they grow into larvae. Each fetus generally has 3-7 embryos, no matter in spring, summer, autumn or winter.

2. Habitat environment: the habitat of snail requires warm winter and cool summer, soft subsoil, rich bait organisms in the water, the optimum water temperature for growth is about 20-25 ℃, the feeding activity is stopped when the water temperature is below 15 ℃ and above 30 ℃, when the water temperature is below 10 ℃, it goes into hibernation, and when the water temperature returns to more than 15 ℃, it goes out again to feed.

The difference between snail and field snail

Many people think that snails are field snails, and field snails are snails, but in fact they are two kinds of things that are closely related, but they are very similar in many ways.

1. Different producing areas: snails are found only in China, while field snails are found almost all over the world.

2. Shells are different: the shell surface of snail is not as smooth as that of snail, there are many spiral rib lines on it, and there are no rib lines on the shell of snail.

3. Different sizes: field snails can grow big, but snails generally don't grow up.

4. Different habits: snails crawl underwater and must be caught with a special trawl, while snails like to live on the shore or in paddy fields.

5. The number of births: snails can only give birth to 3-7 small snails, and field snails can give birth to dozens of small snails.

6. Breeding season: snails breed continuously all the year round, while field snails only begin to breed from March to April every year.