The snail, Papillifera bidens, was thought to have arrived on a balustrade from the Villa Borghese in Rome in 1896, and with suitably snail-paced progress seems to have taken more than a hundred years to reach stonework 60 yards away.And courtesy of Julia Hoban, Jilian Mincer at the WSJ on "butter heads"...
Friday, August 27, 2010
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A delightful little story at the Guardian about an Italian snail that stowed away on imported Victorian stonework (via paperpools):
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I love it! here's my favorite quote-- "Despite the UK's cooler climes, the populations in both sites have managed to move a number of yards from their original stonework over a century and remain healthy."
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