“They do breed quickly and their enclosures need sweeping of eggs, so anyone taking on a giant African land snail would need to humanely dispatch the eggs to prevent them from multiplying or you ...

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Giant African land snails include the largest land snail species ... "I collected them and they were observed laying eggs at Reptilia, which they would have already been carrying.

The giant African land snail, Lissachatina fulica, can grow up to 8 inches long and procreate in large quantities, laying thousands of eggs at a time that can go on to hatch and wreak additional ...

African giant land snails are difficult to curb, because they reproduce quickly and abundantly. A single snail can lay up to 2,500 eggs in a single year. In the early 1990s, biologists at the ...

It's illegal to import or possess the giant African land snail in the US; the snail was first spotted in Miami in 1969, according to ABC News. By 1973, more than 18,000 snails and their eggs were ...

As they develop rapidly and produce large numbers of offspring, the giant African land snail is recognized as ... and lay anywhere from 100 to 400 eggs. Mendoza said that special teams with ...

No, this foreign invader is a snail. But what a snail it is. The giant African land snail "can grow as big as a rat and gnaw through stucco and plaster," says Reuters' Barbara Liston. Since the ...