- Garden snails are native to the Mediterranean
- But they’ve travelled as far as California and Australia
- (People being followed by snails is a real thing.)
- Growing snails on purpose is called heliciculture
- Growing them by accident is called good biodiversity
- If snails threaten your garden, make it firefly-friendly
- Because fireflies eat snails and slugs
- So do frogs, lizards and birds
- Or you can eat the snails yourself
- They’re a good source of protein – and parasitic worms
- I prefer biodiversity to gastronomy, but you do you