{"id":679,"date":"2025-06-12T07:39:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T07:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/?p=679"},"modified":"2025-06-12T08:53:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T08:53:26","slug":"catch-of-the-day-an-elderly-snail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/?p=679","title":{"rendered":"Catch of the day: an elderly snail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"An Elderly Snail\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SMdmmHpZacM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>When two garden snails really like each other, they show it by mutual stabbing. They\u2019re equipped with special love darts for this very purpose &#8211; they\u2019re hermaphrodites and their love dueling, which goes on for hours, is how they exchange seed.<br>Throughout history, garden snails have loved hitching a ride with humans and this is how they\u2019ve managed to reach some of the farthest corners of the Earth. They\u2019re cute in their own right but their appetite can spell disaster for crops in areas where their natural predators are scarce. Good biodiversity is your friend &#8211; frogs, birds, lizards and many bugs will happily keep snails in check for you.<br>But if all else fails, you can always scare garden snails away with coffee grounds \u2013 they seriously dislike coffee. That\u2019s probably for the best because the idea of fast-moving, twitchy snails is borderline disturbing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When two garden snails really like each other, they show it by mutual stabbing. They\u2019re equipped with special love darts for this very purpose &#8211; they\u2019re hermaphrodites and their love dueling, which goes on for hours, is how they exchange seed.Throughout history, garden snails have loved hitching a ride with humans and this is how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/?p=679\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Catch of the day: an elderly snail<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8,17,114,12,25,94],"tags":[136,137,135,133,132,71,75,134,89],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-english","category-life-in-slovenia","category-neanderslavia","category-slovenia","category-videos","category-wetlands","tag-cornuaspersum","tag-cryptomphalusaspersus","tag-gardensnail","tag-helixaspersa","tag-naturereserve","tag-slovenia","tag-vojnik","tag-vrtnipolz","tag-wetlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-straus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}