The Florida Agriculture Department is catching enormous African snails with the aid of sniffer dogs to prevent damage to crops and other plants as well as meningitis in people.
The snails were referred to be “one of the most harmful” mollusk subtypes worldwide by the agricultural department.
Due to its exceptionally huge size and prodigious reproduction, the creature may swiftly permeate its surroundings. Its voracious hunger for at least 500 different plant species, as well as paint and plaster, puts flora and infrastructure at serious risk.
According to department scientist Jason Stanley, “We’re worried about it being in our ecosystem.”
This will be Florida’s third extermination of a huge African snail infestation; the first was in 1975, and the last will be in 2021.
These snails are being sought after by dogs, which have been taught to find them and sit on them when they do.
So far, more than 1,000 snails have been caught.
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