#tree snail

[herpsandbirds]

Green Tree Snails (Leptopoma taivanum), family Cyclophoridae, Okinawa, Japan

photographs: geeseinflight, Doo-yoon Kim

[onenicebugperday]

Candy cane snail, Liguus virgineus, Orthalicidae

This arboreal species is found in Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Photo 1 by pedrogenarorodriguez and 2 by margomora

[bigpappahope]

Manatee tree snail

[colorsoutofearth]

Collection of Cuban tree snail (Polymita picta) empty shells

Photo by Bruno D'Amicis

[fizzlo-and-the-cubes]

when the malewife duo is malewives to each other and baghera is also there in her cupboard

[six-improbable-things]

I love when I'm doing research for an assignment in my conservation biology class and I come across something that was clearly written with barely-contained hatred. Like this paper about Oahu Tree Snails:

(Obviously the fact that the snails are so threatened is not funny, but I must admit, the simmering rage behind these words did make me laugh while reading this.)

here's the link to the paper if anyone's interested. (It's quite old now, published 1990.) Should be accessible without university access or anything, as it's a pdf from a museum collection.

(also, tagging @great-and-small because I feel like this is up your alley.)

[polito0]

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Truth and Illusion: An Introduction to Metaphysics (King Vidor, 1964)

[snailtowne]

something something death pact yet again

[marmosetpaw]

[herpsandbirds]

Peruvian Green Tree Snail (Drymaeus valentini), family Bulimulidae, Peru

photograph by Josh Allen

[onenicebugperday]

Cuban painted snail, Polymita picta, Cepolide

Found only in eastern Cuba, this arboreal species shows remarkable diversity in shell color between individuals. Unfortunately due to poaching to make jewelry and collectibles from their shells, they are now endangered.

Photo 1-5 by mig_ernesto, 6 by rappman, 7 by manfrax, and 8-10 by amantedarmanin

[mikyapixie]

A new Adventure Time comic-book series!!! The Land of Ooo will launch by Oni Press!!! The first issue will release on April 9th!!!

[eghostsofdeadchildren]

Spiritcaller Snail.

[teeter-beetle]

Arborglyphs, the Art of Carving Stiff Bark

The handiwork of historic herders can be found all around the aspen groves of Upper Gambol. Naturally, snail herders had an abundance of time on their hands while their slow-moving flocks grazed. One popular pastime was carving glyphs into aspen trees. Arborglyphs could be used as territorial boundaries, path markers, or merely creative expressions.

Popular designs include frogs and snail shells, including creative combinations like Snail Shell + Bird (the two creatures herders are most concerned with), Snail Shell + Mushroom For more, visit frogiverse.com

[violetsandshrikes]

“As an endling, Turgi wasn’t, perhaps, as grandiose as many of his fellow lasts of their species. He wasn’t as furry and charismatic as Benjamin the thylacine, who’s death made him a mascot for National Threatened Species Day in Australia. Turgi wasn’t a martyr that tourists visit on eco-pilgrimages, like Sudan the northern white rhino almost-endling. He wasn’t a stately Lonesome George living out his life with gravitas in his own Galápogas Islands. Although sad, of course, reports of Turgi’s death were certainly less intentionally pathos-filled than many other eulogies of species’ extinctions; perhaps because it’s harder to anthropomorphize a snail than other charismatic organisms.”

- Endlings: Fables for the Anthropocene, by Lydia Pyne