#applesnails — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #applesnails, aggregated by home.social.
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"[Golden apple snails (Pomacea canaliculata)] can completely regrow a functional eye within months of having one amputated, Accorsi and colleagues report August 6 in Nature Communications.""
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/snail-human-eye-regeneration
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Parasite of the Day: Bothrigaster variolaris
http://dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/08/bothrigaster-variolaris.html"#SnailKites, as you might have ingenuously guessed from the name, eat #snails! #AppleSnails (Pomacea spp.), to be precise. #Trematodes in the Cyclocoelidae family use snails as their hosts for the larval stage, meaning when those snails are eaten, little baby trematodes get to grow up into a mature adult in the body of whatever ate the snail (usually birds)."
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This photograph is of a #limpkin or #cryingbird, #Aramusguarauna, in the #Orlando #Wetlands #Park in Christmas, #Florida.
Limpkins range from southern Georgia, to the Florida #peninsula, though the #Caribbean islands, and into South America.
They feed mostly on #snails, #applesnails primarily, but also eat other small mollusks, insects, and seeds.
https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/limpkin-heron-and-fox.html