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stylish mud snail with an anemone hat

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8/10/2021, Southeast Virginia

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BREAKING NEWS THERE ARE SEA SNAILS THAT CAN FARM FUNGI

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Cedar Key Isn’t Just About Beautiful Birds

Helical Not too long ago, I went out to Cedar Key in search of white pelicans. I had no luck in that department, but I did see plenty of other beautiful birds, including several of our other winter visitors. Although Cedar Key is always a great place to see birds, it’s also a great place to see all sorts of other interesting nature, too. In past trips I’ve found flowers, spiders, butterflies,…

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This Interesting, Clever Little Snail Actually Farms it’s Own Food

This Interesting, Clever Little Snail Actually Farms it’s Own Food tells readers about the marsh periwinkle, a salt water snail that eats algae, dead leaves, and fungi. It explains how these snails produce their favorite food on the plant stalks.

Marsh Periwinkle Okay, okay so it’s a snail and almost certainly not terribly clever, but still, it’s pretty cool that this snail actually does grow some of it’s own food. We’ll get into that in a little bit, but first I want to give you some background on these snails. They are marsh periwinkles (Littoraria irrorata), and they live exclusively in salt marshes. Salt marshes are a unique type of…

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Marsh Periwinkle (Littoraria irrorata) on marsh grass, Matanzas Inlet, St. Johns Co. Florida 8/29/2004 (about        20 mm.) | Digital image by Joel Wooster (x)