Sentences with phrase «eating snails»

Instead coral there are battling bacterial diseases like white - band that can be spread by coral - eating snails.

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But then I remembered I was eating snails and got a little queasy... the pizza was good!

Now, new research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has unraveled this evolutionary mystery by uncovering a «smoking gun» signature present in the venom of fish - eating snails and their worm - loving cousins.

«Not only does the level of protection provided vary by species, but the smallest crabs were defending the coral from coral - eating snails, a threat that larger crabs ignored.»

And as hard as it is for me to understand it, the feeling many people have about eating snails — utter disgust — is exactly how my son feels about eating carrots.

If you have an aversion to eating snails but I just know you'd love escargots if only you'd try them, do I have the right pass them off to you as mushrooms?

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Mammals and birds eat the snails or shellfish and become infected with the worms.

They are thrilled to eat snails, shell and all, and even respond well to canned snails, such as Zoo Med's Can O» Snails, one of our most popular canned reptile foods.

However, you've probably also heard a lot of myths about how dogs get it — from contact with other dogs, from eating feces, even from eating snail's eggs.

The parasites are contracted when a dog eats a snail or slug which has picked up the larvae from infected dog poop, either intentionally or unintentionally, any contact with the s lime trail either from bowls or toys kept outside can also cause infection.

I can't imagine her eating a snail or tadpole / frog but she dug up (and ate) a vole a couple of times several months ago.

Big flocks of domestic ducks, with clipped wings, are trucked into rice paddies all around the country, where they eat snails and weeds and their feces fertilize the paddies — it's a win / win for the duck farmer and the rice farmer.

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We are not suppose to worry about what we are going to eat, drink or wear.the crane must represent the carnal nature behaviour of natural man due to its obsession with snails.

For that matter, you will hear it sometimes said that it is unnatural to eat horses and snails (the English like to say this, having in mind French culinary tastes), or that parental love for children is natural.

I don't see why it is wrong to eat raw snails and shellfish?

Eating raw snails and raw freshwater shellfish is extremely unwise.

Right now I'm dealing with a bit of a repulsive factor thinking about eating raw snails, unknown oysters, and crunchy ants.

During my visit, ducks had just been introduced into the rice fields, so that they would eat the slugs and snails, and then the ducks themselves could in turn be eaten.

Barely glancing at the menu, Tom ordered and ate half a dozen snails, a bowl of kangaroo - tail soup, a Chateaubriand for two, several French pastries and, between tastes of his parents» dishes, various rolls and vegetables.

Strong - willed kids often eat fast and talk fast but then move at a snail's pace when doing something they aren't interested in doing.

If more snails are eaten by predators, algae densities could increase.

And when gators are around, blue crabs decrease their predation of snails, which might then eat more of the cordgrass that forms the base of the local ecosystem.

ONLY one animal — the fearless fire ant — eats the eggs of channelled apple snails (Pomacea canaliculata), and now we know why.

South Pacific land snails are rare to begin with, but they have taken a hit in the last few decades after residents of Raiatea, in the Society Island chain some 5000 kilometers south of Hawaii, began importing predatory snails from Florida in 1986 to eat another kind of pest snail.

Ecologist John Orrock, who studies how animals balance the need to protect themselves from predation with other needs, such as eating and mating, hatched the idea for this research when he was studying snails in a California grassland.

The treatment, given five times over two weeks, mimicked snails crawling their way around plants, choosing the best greens to eat and depositing their slime as they go.

Near Glen Canyon Dam, the researchers found food webs dominated by invasive New Zealand mud snails and non-native rainbow trout, with large mismatches in the food web and only a small percentage of available invertebrates eaten by fish.

If all goes to plan this second snail, and its fluke stowaways, will be eaten by a bird, completing the cycle.

As the snails are so small, and otters must eat a quarter of their body weight in food a day, Nosebuster had to forage for most of his waking hours.

Only 10 percent caught and ate their prey, compared with 60 percent of snails living in water with current CO2 levels, researchers report February 1 in Biology Letters.

I was amused by Dunstan's solution for the snails that were eating his flowers.

After filling each with 800 liters of pond water, they added two species of snails that spread the schistosomiasis parasite, algae for the snails to eat, and two kinds of predators — crayfish and water bugs.

Another success story is Prialt, discovered by a University of Utah team studying a fish - eating cone snail.

When these chemicals enter streams and ponds, they increase the amount of algae, which is then eaten by snails that serve as a host for the flatworms.

Otters that ate lots of hard - shelled snails — and used tools most frequently — rarely shared a common pattern in mitochondrial DNA, nor were they more closely related to other tool - users than any other otter in the population.

«On top of that, snails that eat live coral are congregating on the survivors, and the weakened corals are more prone to disease.

«They eat anything — rotten leaves, snails or fish broods, small fish, small insects,» says Frank Lyko, a molecular geneticist at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.

Moreover, there are no snails or slugs to eat them.

It doesn't eat the fresh tissue but instead waits until fungus riddles the leaf wound, explains Brian Silliman of Brown University in Providence, R.I. Snail droppings boost the amount of fungus that grows in the cut, say Silliman and Steven Y. Newell of the University of Georgia Marine Institute on Sapelo Island.

Once ready to move on to its next host, the worms push up into the snail's tentacles, making them swell and squirm, mimicking the action of bugs that birds like to eat.

The researchers suggest that this behaviour may have evolved as it attracts snails to the nests by ensuring they have a plentiful supply of algae to eat.

The snails also are vulnerable to a well - documented threat — a parasitic worm (Microphallus livelyi) that lives within the snail as it awaits a chance to glom on to its final host: ducks that eat infected snails.

The Conus geographus snail is a predatory cone snail, eating fish.

Attempts to control schistosomiasis by focusing on the snail hosts date to the 1950s, but earlier efforts involved either molluscicides — poisons — or the introduction of non-host snail species to eat or compete with the hosts.

Understanding the biomechanics of this little snail could help engineers design some nifty sea - faring robots, and it could also help with ecological studies: Zooplankton like helicina move upwards to the surface of the ocean each night to eat (and avoid being eaten), and this mass migration of tiny organisms is one of the biggest biomass movements on the planet.

Over the next couple of days, he recorded how much of each plant a snail ate.

Orrock now suspects his first explanation was correct: The snails hadn't eaten the mucus - treated plants because the plants had somehow defended themselves.

Maybe the snails didn't eat the mucus - treated plants because the snails detected some snail slime remaining in the soil.