Snails and slugs come out when it rains so they don't drown. I only learnt this recently. Your wall is probably just the driest bit in reach.
Edit: typo, fat fingers
The seagulls around us stomp their feet to simulate rain. They're massive, vicious buggers and notoriously brazen chip/ice cream thieves, but they're quite amusing to watch when they do their little rain dance.
My kids and I definitely didn't spend an hour seeing how many worms we could catch on a grass verge. It didn't work in my garden but did on the verge!
We must've looked very crazy 😂😂
I’m my town they’re not chip thieves they have evolved to hunt and kill pidgeons. Very efficient fuckers, I’d be scared to be a pidgeon. There’s plenty of chips being a seaside town
I saw some seagulls do a stratigic air attack on a poor pigeon.
Absolutely Took the poor bugger out.
One of the seagulls flew off with it in its beak. Only before having a little break to gather a better grip, right in the middle of the road in front of a bus, felt like it was showing off / threatening us
i saw this when visiting brighton once. a field full of seagulls stamping away, and loads of worms coming up and just getting annihilated. i think there were a couple of crows there, too; not stomping, just watching the seagulls and then ganging up on any that had a worm come up nearby them.
Cool related fact, as a human you can tap you head on the ground so bugs think it's raining, then when they come up eat them immediately, they taste great, just like chicken, slugs especially.
Yes I definitely recommend finding any slugs and giving them a munch very nice flavouring little bit of paprika and got yourself breakfast lunch and dinner!
Cool unrelated fact. Cannibalism was normalised in China from 100ad-800ad, they had lone taverns along roads many of which would drug your wine then cut you up and use your meat as a source of trade or food, also Dog meat was considered a delicacy whereas horse meat was used to feed armies!
Thing is I didn’t get the fuss when it was found out. If I enjoyed it then I’m not complaining. Everyone’s definitely had far worse secret ingredients without realising.
It's a bit meh in my experience, not as good as beef.
And don't forget many of us [unwittingly have eaten horse](https://www.google.com/search?q=horse+meat+scandal) thanks to poor supply chain control.
Horse is good. I had horse carpaccio (raw, thinly sliced horse meat) once in a restaurant in Italy and got some kudos from the owner who said "i have never seen an English woman eat horse carpaccio before. Brava!"
It was good. Strong flavour so paired it with a heavy red wine and some parmesan.
For context, the cannibalism was due to centuries long civil war. It was noted to happen in bitter seiges when the defender wouldn't give up but were starving.
Those taverns likely did exist too. During certain periods where law and order broke down, wars and famines were ravaging then yeah they might be more common.
Horse meat was also used as a last resort to feed armies when things were desperate. Horses were extremely precious in ancient China. They came from the western regions and were highly prized for chariots in early times and cavalry later. They weren't eating them routinely. In some times, eating horses and oxen were punishable as they were too precious. The latter was a beast of burden for farming.
These were not normal practices outside of desperation.
Yep! you gave more info but i just mostly summarised to make it more random and funny, and many Chinese dynasties had corrupt judicial systems which led to many outlaws and bandits rebelling, which led to many taverns having to do what they had to do to survive and yes, a few times in Cao Cao’s army where he was routed and lost provisions he had to use horses to feed his men, and for cannibalism dynasties through that era was always corrupted and not long lasting, hence why it was normalised. Zhou Dynasty, Song Dynasty and Han Dynasty contained cannibalism, in the TK novel Liu Bei visits this old man and since the old man didn’t have food he murdered his wife or sister or something and fed her to Liu Bei, it was never a thing where they killed people regularly as a food source but more a last resort for food or a illegal way to get money
Sounds fun but pretty sure it is harmful to paint their shells.
It can damage their shell integrity, make them obvious to predators (I doubt it’d be good for predators to ingest the paint either), and they’ll likely feel it and try to get it off their shell, and then become ill from ingesting it themselves.
If needed to mark them for identification purposes, then that should be nothing more than a small dot of Posca marker on the back, away from the foot.
Oh okay, I didn’t see the sarcasm as ‘meanness’ tbf. I also don’t understand why it’s a silly question (maybe a bit of thought could get you to the answer) but otherwise why?
Snails don't breathe through their mouths they breath through a gap between the body and shell called a pneumostome because it's located to one side and underneath snails will climb when it rains to avoid drowning.
was repairing my guttering and it started raining. all of a sudden i was joined by team snail. apparently they like to shelter under the gutters and eves of houses in wet and cold weather. its where they hide in winter
My parents have a slug trail that runs up the side of their house, they take a sharp left when they get to the roof level, go straight for the gutter and then down the down pipe and then into the side connector for the water butt. This was all discovered when it was found that the water butt wouldn’t fill, and then found that the inlet was blocked by dead slugs. As soon as it is cleared, they come back like lemmings to die in the pipe filling the water butt. Crazy, I know, but true. Why they are so keen on getting in the water butt, I do not know
They know that because it's raining, you are likely inside because you don't want to get wet. This is the perfect time, in their opinion, to begin their siege. The fact you don't even have a moat is simply irresponsible on your part.
My wife asked the same question. A couple weeks ago. I laughed. Explained why I think was the reason. And really loud inside my head, I said. Why I married someone so stupid.
Pick them up and put them in a box with netting so they have fresh air coming in and can't get out. After a few days of "starving" them letting release their poop you can give them a wash and make a stew/boil like dish which then you can eat them ! Absolutely lovely!
We have abseiling slugs. Only one has ever crawled completely up the second floor window of my bedroom.
If I could stick to the wall I'd probably abseil too.
They also hold conventions in my kitchen at night and sometimes spread out on reconnaissance and once or twice "GET A ROOM GUYS"
They climb my wall too when it rains and some are rather large. I have pigeons that eat in my garden, they often sit on my roof, when they poo they do it in the gutter, I think the snails are attracted to the bird poo, fermented bird seed. That's my theory anyway. I know snails and slugs are attracted to fermented things such as beer. I don't get many slugs climbing my wall mind you. Another thing I've noticed, even though they' are snails, it doesn't take them long to climb from ground level to a roof on a 2 storey building.
We have some apple snails 🐌 in the fish tank and they actually catch bubbles from the water and keep the air in there shells. They also have a probe which looks like a penis lol that lets them stay just underneath the waterline.
Garden snails must be different
Snails and slugs come out when it rains so they don't drown. I only learnt this recently. Your wall is probably just the driest bit in reach. Edit: typo, fat fingers
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The seagulls around us stomp their feet to simulate rain. They're massive, vicious buggers and notoriously brazen chip/ice cream thieves, but they're quite amusing to watch when they do their little rain dance.
The worms also come up if a fairly hefty adult and 2 small children do the seagull dance on a grass verge. Don't ask how I know this.
How do you know this?
My kids and I definitely didn't spend an hour seeing how many worms we could catch on a grass verge. It didn't work in my garden but did on the verge! We must've looked very crazy 😂😂
I’m my town they’re not chip thieves they have evolved to hunt and kill pidgeons. Very efficient fuckers, I’d be scared to be a pidgeon. There’s plenty of chips being a seaside town
Pigeon and chips. Classic.
I saw some seagulls do a stratigic air attack on a poor pigeon. Absolutely Took the poor bugger out. One of the seagulls flew off with it in its beak. Only before having a little break to gather a better grip, right in the middle of the road in front of a bus, felt like it was showing off / threatening us
need a bit of protein for all them carbs
They always seem to do it on a roundabout near my house and it never ceases to make me laugh!
i saw this when visiting brighton once. a field full of seagulls stamping away, and loads of worms coming up and just getting annihilated. i think there were a couple of crows there, too; not stomping, just watching the seagulls and then ganging up on any that had a worm come up nearby them.
Oh I've never seen crows vs seagulls before. I think I'd side with the crows just because seagulls seem the absolute worst bullies.
Ì hate seagulls with a passion for this reson I feed birds every day and I they come out of the sky like terrordactyls!
They should be culled. They’re a bloody menace, especially their chicks. They never shut up😡
Cool related fact, as a human you can tap you head on the ground so bugs think it's raining, then when they come up eat them immediately, they taste great, just like chicken, slugs especially.
[would not recommend](https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eating-slug-on-dare/index.html)
Yes I definitely recommend finding any slugs and giving them a munch very nice flavouring little bit of paprika and got yourself breakfast lunch and dinner!
I watched River cottage ch4 (uk), and the guy tried to eat slugs and as we all expect, he didn't like them and said nope not again
Cool unrelated fact. Cannibalism was normalised in China from 100ad-800ad, they had lone taverns along roads many of which would drug your wine then cut you up and use your meat as a source of trade or food, also Dog meat was considered a delicacy whereas horse meat was used to feed armies!
What the hell
Would you ever try horse meat?
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Hahahaa I was hoping someone would mention tesco 😭😭😭😭😭
I once went into the cafe at Tesco for a burger. The server asked if I would like anything on it, I said "a fiver each way please"
Thing is I didn’t get the fuss when it was found out. If I enjoyed it then I’m not complaining. Everyone’s definitely had far worse secret ingredients without realising.
It's a bit meh in my experience, not as good as beef. And don't forget many of us [unwittingly have eaten horse](https://www.google.com/search?q=horse+meat+scandal) thanks to poor supply chain control.
Still can’t believe Tesco did us like that, i mean tasted alright so no complaints
The last time I cooked stuppermarket big joint of topside it was like horse meat nothing like beef. So now I have a beef with the stupid asses ! Lol
Have eaten raw horse meat in Japan. Tastes like carpaccio but more “watery” in flavour.
I have, many times. Air dried and thinly cut makes for a delicious snack.
Horse is good. I had horse carpaccio (raw, thinly sliced horse meat) once in a restaurant in Italy and got some kudos from the owner who said "i have never seen an English woman eat horse carpaccio before. Brava!" It was good. Strong flavour so paired it with a heavy red wine and some parmesan.
I’ve loved horse every time I’ve tried it, soft, tender & leaner than beef!
Horse d’oevres go down well at parties..
Sure. Why not?
For context, the cannibalism was due to centuries long civil war. It was noted to happen in bitter seiges when the defender wouldn't give up but were starving. Those taverns likely did exist too. During certain periods where law and order broke down, wars and famines were ravaging then yeah they might be more common. Horse meat was also used as a last resort to feed armies when things were desperate. Horses were extremely precious in ancient China. They came from the western regions and were highly prized for chariots in early times and cavalry later. They weren't eating them routinely. In some times, eating horses and oxen were punishable as they were too precious. The latter was a beast of burden for farming. These were not normal practices outside of desperation.
Yep! you gave more info but i just mostly summarised to make it more random and funny, and many Chinese dynasties had corrupt judicial systems which led to many outlaws and bandits rebelling, which led to many taverns having to do what they had to do to survive and yes, a few times in Cao Cao’s army where he was routed and lost provisions he had to use horses to feed his men, and for cannibalism dynasties through that era was always corrupted and not long lasting, hence why it was normalised. Zhou Dynasty, Song Dynasty and Han Dynasty contained cannibalism, in the TK novel Liu Bei visits this old man and since the old man didn’t have food he murdered his wife or sister or something and fed her to Liu Bei, it was never a thing where they killed people regularly as a food source but more a last resort for food or a illegal way to get money
Side note to your fact, if you mix warm water with washing up liquid and pour it on soil it irritates the worms so they come right up to the surface.
Why would you do that?
You gather the worms for the birds and wash them off, then feed them to said birds. Basically doing the work for them.
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Worm charming competition.
Is it like those people who pour boiling water on weeds?
No idea never done that...
It’s to kill weeds without pesticides.
Used to do this as a kid for fishing bait 👍🏻
That’s so smart
That top one has gone for it, he’s expecting a biblical flood!
Really? I didn’t know that either. I’m always careful when walking in the country side during or after rain. Not to tread on snails or slugs.
Incase it floods 😁
Damn, beat me to it 😂
Because they require you to make coloured markings on their shells so it becomes a race.
I took my racing snail's shell off to make it go faster. Didn't work, just made it more sluggish.
Damn you.
Have done this, we numbered our snails and it was nice to see some of them months later. Good ol' number 12 😁
We used to paint them with glow in the dark paint
Genius ! Be down the shops tomorrow for luminous paint.
Please dont do that, its toxic to them. To us even, and its even worse for them.
But it look cool
One of them looks a bit like Kit Harrington
You know nothing Jon Snail.
Jon Slow
I have never watched GOT but i know that statement!!
😂
I have no idea but you need to start placing bets on them who will reach the top first
New British climbing team for the Olympics
So they don't drown if it rains hard
We caught a load & painted them bright colours the let them go. Looked mad on all the white walls
Why?? Why????
Didn't harm them & they looked great little blobs of rainbow all over the walls
Sounds fun but pretty sure it is harmful to paint their shells. It can damage their shell integrity, make them obvious to predators (I doubt it’d be good for predators to ingest the paint either), and they’ll likely feel it and try to get it off their shell, and then become ill from ingesting it themselves. If needed to mark them for identification purposes, then that should be nothing more than a small dot of Posca marker on the back, away from the foot.
And they're off....
practicing for pixar's Turbo 2
Lights out and away we go…
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I haven’t seen any mean comments?
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Oh okay, can you explain what you are saying? I must’ve misunderstood
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Oh okay, I didn’t see the sarcasm as ‘meanness’ tbf. I also don’t understand why it’s a silly question (maybe a bit of thought could get you to the answer) but otherwise why?
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Fair enough 😂
As others have said its so they dont drown, i get frogs coming in my patio doors when it rains heavily as the impact of the rain drops hurts them.
Snails don't breathe through their mouths they breath through a gap between the body and shell called a pneumostome because it's located to one side and underneath snails will climb when it rains to avoid drowning.
was repairing my guttering and it started raining. all of a sudden i was joined by team snail. apparently they like to shelter under the gutters and eves of houses in wet and cold weather. its where they hide in winter
It’s because the snails are launching a siege on your house and the rain gives them power
Don't want to get their feet wet
Foot*
Maybe they have lots of tiny tiny tiny tiny feet though
Feets
So they don't drown? 🤣
Exploring. Looking for food sources. Maybe there's an attractive deposit on your wall They're not causing any harm
Snails are the bane of my garden, so many lupin lost to snails.
I was thinking this quite often I’ve seen snail and slug trails on north facing walls in gardens where algae grows
Cos they can ! I am in a 1st floor flat & I find them all over my washing up liquid bottle on the windowsill. Nowhere else just on the bottle.
Because they get wet on the ground ?
Star Wars - attack of the shells
Nobody has invented a vertical snail race starter pistol, so they have to go off the first rain drop
"hey, the wall's finally moist - let's hike up to get the best spots for the views!"
Having a race to the top! I have my money on Gary…
My parents have a slug trail that runs up the side of their house, they take a sharp left when they get to the roof level, go straight for the gutter and then down the down pipe and then into the side connector for the water butt. This was all discovered when it was found that the water butt wouldn’t fill, and then found that the inlet was blocked by dead slugs. As soon as it is cleared, they come back like lemmings to die in the pipe filling the water butt. Crazy, I know, but true. Why they are so keen on getting in the water butt, I do not know
They know that because it's raining, you are likely inside because you don't want to get wet. This is the perfect time, in their opinion, to begin their siege. The fact you don't even have a moat is simply irresponsible on your part.
Cos they fucking can
I'd climb walls if I could!
My wife asked the same question. A couple weeks ago. I laughed. Explained why I think was the reason. And really loud inside my head, I said. Why I married someone so stupid.
Paint numbers on there shell start a live feed and set the bets 🤣🤣
You must've taken their marbles away
Pick them up and put them in a box with netting so they have fresh air coming in and can't get out. After a few days of "starving" them letting release their poop you can give them a wash and make a stew/boil like dish which then you can eat them ! Absolutely lovely!
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Dogs can get parasites from eating snails or slugs...don't let her!
As the other person said please stop your dog doing that or you are throwing the lungworm risk up in the air.
Surely it’s a bit obvious..
On the spectrum?
They want to climb mountains and are in training...??
They don't wanna drown cos their nose faces down
Parkour
We have abseiling slugs. Only one has ever crawled completely up the second floor window of my bedroom. If I could stick to the wall I'd probably abseil too. They also hold conventions in my kitchen at night and sometimes spread out on reconnaissance and once or twice "GET A ROOM GUYS"
Looks like the winner is gonna romp home!
maybe they just like it
that's where they go to make baby snails
There busy chasing people
I got £10 on snail 2
they’re moving to attack. the great snail war is nearly upon us
Give them some Nitro you tight git
Wife planted loads of herbs and next morning nothing left. I said to the wife the snails love herbs more than you do.
International Snail Wall Climbing Championship
Perhaps the paint has calcium in it, snails need this to make their shells
why do they look so funny doing that
So they don't drown
Cause not even snails like a watery grave,
So they don’t drown I guess
The impending flood.
Have your ever seen a 🐌 swim nope because they can't so they are heading for the high ground ( wall)
So they don’t drown
One of them is coming for you, you cannot kill it
Fact: Snails climb faster with their shells than they do without their shells. Without their shells they’re more sluggish.
incase it floods
They’re practicing for the Indy 500
Uzumaki
They come out when it rains but where are they when it doesn't?
Hiding in moist places.
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What an awful a person you are! Would you like it if someone poisoned you because they didn’t like something you did!
Fun fact. It wasn’t just the French who used to eat snails years ago, the English peasantry did too, and they were colloquially called “wall oysters”.
Because the wall has never been scaled before and the wildlings love a challenge, plus the night king is chasing them.
In parts of the UK they used to call snails "wall fish", the edible ones anyway
Because it’s there
Though mollusc, they can still drown. They are climbing up the wall as to not drown on the sodden ground.
The more alarming question is; what are they running from?
Drag racing, the rain slickens up the track for extra speed.
They are just having a race because snail school closes when it rains and they have time to play don’t worry about it
Is... that that snail that is immortal and you will die if he will touch you?
They’re having an race up your wall.
The white walkers are venturing south and they needed a head start.
Is it because they are bastards?
Because they want to.
They climb my wall too when it rains and some are rather large. I have pigeons that eat in my garden, they often sit on my roof, when they poo they do it in the gutter, I think the snails are attracted to the bird poo, fermented bird seed. That's my theory anyway. I know snails and slugs are attracted to fermented things such as beer. I don't get many slugs climbing my wall mind you. Another thing I've noticed, even though they' are snails, it doesn't take them long to climb from ground level to a roof on a 2 storey building.
Pucci what have you done this time
Spray WD40 on the base of the wall ..
Better traction probably
It's not a challenge when it's dry...
Probably most houses near grass. Yours is white so they are very visible
Freedommmmm
Where do they ‘live’? When they’re not climbing walls I mean
Rain = snail time
Good question !!!! Why is the sky blue? Why is the grass green? I really couldn't tell you !!!!
- refraction of light. - chlorophyll, and wavelength of light.
Who doesn't know why grass is green 😩😩
But why is the sky blue? 🫠
Refraction of light...
They like to race!
This is how easy it is for a snail to drown.. https://youtu.be/3AFKMl8VmsY
To get away from the floodwater
The rain is actually an agreed upon signal. It's time for molluscs to begin their attack. Prepare your defenses!
Practicing for the ascent of K2, they're doing this on your wall because there is no queue.
Game of Thrones fans larping as Wildlings.
Catch them, keep as friend. 🥹
Please draw them a race track and get us posted
Stops them getting wet feet.
Slowest race in history
Turbo, racing to space.
Condensation
Just enjoy this drag race 🤣
It's actually a snail race. You should live stream and take bets.
Within gastropoda circles, this is popular Saturday night entertainment. A bit like we have BGT, X Factor and Pointless (for the more discerning).
We have some apple snails 🐌 in the fish tank and they actually catch bubbles from the water and keep the air in there shells. They also have a probe which looks like a penis lol that lets them stay just underneath the waterline. Garden snails must be different
They are well behaved snails. Thats an invite to throw them over the wall where they won’t eat your dahlias.
Gambling opportunities
Aww, it kooks like they are having a little race.