#fruticicola fruticum

[songbirdradiation]

Bush snail (Fruticicola fruticum) in Maunulanpuisto, Helsinki, Finland. September 2024.

[giulliadella]

This is bush snail (Fruticicola fruticum) definitely one of the cutest snails in existence. It can be found only in Europe and it prefers warm mountains with as little pollution as possible. The shell color varies from this brown, to pinkish orange, to green, to yellow, but it’s almost always decorated with these dark blotches in adults. The snail itself is usually yellow or whitish.

This adorable little cutie pie is actually biting me on the second picture. And she thinks that I’m rather tasty because her eyes are droopy and she’s face down munching on my skin. Snails are actually omnivorous and they rarely miss the opportunity to eat some tasty meat (in this case me). The feeling is extremely hard to describe, you literally have to get munched on by a snail to understand it. It’s actually kinda sweet, because when they eat they take their cutest pose and you know that you didn’t disturb them at all, since snails don’t bite in response to danger, they only bite to eat. So by eating me, it tells me that it feels super safe in my hand which makes my heart melt.

(Another possibility is that she thinks that I’m another snail and she’s ready to mate. Snails are very very kinky and they loooove biting each other while they mate. And they also stab each other with love darts, but that’s a whole different can of worms).

[silverpolish]

Snails with scalariform shells.

1 - Canthareus aspersus 2 - Cepaea nemoralis (Although the snail pictured is named John) 3 - Fruticicola fruticum

[onenicebugperday]

@tiny-moss-patch submitted: Hi! I recently got a pet snail and I was wondering if you could ID it! his name is Kurt, btw :))

I'm in bavaria, germany

Kurt is VERY cute, please tell them they are perfect. I'm not very familiar with your snails so I may need more photos for an accurate ID. Or you could look up the ones I think it may be for comparison - possible a bush snail, Fruticicola fruticum, or a large leaf snail, Euomphalia strigella.

[takotoillustration]

With my tablet being busted over the last two weeks, I didn't intend this to be the last thing I completed in 2019, but here we are! Little gastropod party!

Arion intermedius - Clausilia bidentata - Discus rotundatus - Fruticicola fruticum - Limax maximus

[justsnail]

Fruticicola fruticum

Photo By: Micheal Becker

[thenielsch]

Struikslak Fruticicola Fruticum

[astronomy-to-zoology]

Fruticicola fruticum

...is a species of terrestrial pulmonate Bradybaenid snail which occurs in parts of Europe, including countries like Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine. Fruticicola fruticum is typically a whitish or brownish color and can reach a shell size of around 22 mm (0.9 inches)

Classification

Animalia-Mollusca-Gastropoda-Heterobranchia-Euthyneura-Panpulmonata-Eupulmonata-Stylommatophora-SIgmurethra-Helicoidea-Bradybaenidae-Fruticicola-F. fruticum

Image: Micheal Becker

[libutron]

Fruticicola fruticum | ©Stefan Haller-Claude & Amandine Evanno

Fruticicola fruticum is a tiny land snail in the family Bradybaenidae. Its shell is yellowish (sometimes reddish brown or even violet), quite transparent, sometimes with color band at periphery. It has umbilicus open and deep (1/7 of shell diameter), and suture deep.

This species occurs in Europe.

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[giulliadella]

Day 33 of posting cute creatures we found on our field trip:

Bush snail (Fruticicola fruticum) is the only member of Camaenidae family that lives in Europe. All the other snails in this family live in South east Asia and Australia which makes this stranded baby very unique. Bush snail is incredibly unique because it’s so well adjusted to cold climates: it can be found even in Scandinavia! The scientific name of this snail literally means “fruity little fruit” because the colors of its shell change from green, to yellow, to orange, to brown, just as if it were a little fruit ripening. We found lots of them, here are the prettiest:

And there was one brownish bush snail that thought that my hand was very delicious so it started biting me:

Look at this vicious hungry beast.