Who helps snails

[Finlesswonder]

My garden has loads of snails and I help them along their path. If I see a baby snail wandering along the concrete I teleport it to a plant. Today there was a snail at the very tip of a very long leaf, so it was basically upside down. I could see it stretching it's eyes down as far as it could to try and get down to the ground beneath it, and it was coming so close but couldn't quite make it. I wasn't sure whether it would have the ability to U-turn on such a long fragile leaf, so I pressed down higher up the leaf with my finger so it could finally make contact with the ground and go on its merry way.

Does anyone else do this? I was also wondering whether it does them more harm than good to gently pull them off whatever they're on. And also, if a snail lands on its back, can it right itself?

Hate them and slugs. Disgusting things.

Bees won't bother you if you don't bother them @Finlesswonder unlike the bastard wasps

I help them by catapulting them over the fence three gardens away to feast on their plants instead.
Why can't they eat weeds instead of lovely plants!
Slugs get a salt overcoat.
Worms on the path get put on the flower beds.

I eat them with garlic butter

If they're tiny or somewhere they'll be stood on pretty quickly then maybe. We call them all Murray and apologise if we ever step on one.
Slugs can fuck off. Always unwanted fucking pests.
I’m no gardener, but slugs in my cat food bowls, making trails across my shoes near to the front door, making their way into my rabbits and guinea pigs food bowls - fucking die by salt. They're not beneficial to fucking anything. Disgusting slimy cunts. They are the gross mucousy invader on par with shitbag cunty wasps.

Your lovely! In fact you’ve made me cry with your kindness. Don’t ever change, in an increasingly negative world, it’s so beautiful to read this.
I also pick up the snails, the worms and help the spiders out of the house, it’s so fantastic that I know I’m not the only one.

Always

We do! We rescue them on the school run! 😂

I’m no gardener, but slugs in my cat food bowls, making trails across my shoes near to the front door, making their way into my rabbits and guinea pigs food bowls - fucking die by salt. They're not beneficial to fucking anything. Disgusting slimy cunts. They are the gross mucousy invader on par with shitbag cunty wasps.

Of course they’re beneficial, lots of wildlife eat slugs in their diet - hedgehogs, birds, toads & frogs even some beetles. Please don’t kill them, just remove them over next doors fence to somewhere else. Every creature plays a part.

Don’t put salt on slugs it’s very cruel and I’m surprised that people say they throw snails. Surely they will smash when they land

I put salt on a slug when I was a kid. Never again. Poor thing literally bubbled up and melted.

Not only do I rescue snails (including about 20-30 on one occasion, who were all crossing a busy road) but once, after kicking a dandelion, I felt guilty that the seeds had all landed on nearby concrete, so scooped them up and found them more appropriate homes 😅

Totally read that last sentence wrong 😂

I have a weird phobia of snails and especially slugs. I stood on a slug accidentally barefoot once and I cried! I was in my 20s! So I leave them and avoid them at all costs

Yes if I see it having issues like upside down I will ... I often feel bad walking my dogs in the rain and crushing them, I don't see them!

Uuuugh they are disgusting, slimy little creatures. And they attack my plants. Yuk.

Copper wire around the top of pots works well to keep them off, and shell fragments for things planted in beds. Plus garlic and chilli spray. But if all else fails, it's a good spray of nematodes everywhere I'm afraid.

I'll leave them alone if they leave me and my garden alone. Trespassing is rude and there are consequences.

I do, I feed mine leftover salad so they can have a snail/slug party. It's fascinating watching them turn round from wherever they were going and head over to the food. I move them ,(and everything else) from paths, get them out of the brown bin.
We had a wasp nest a few years ago near our wheelie bins. We decided to let them get on with it. They weren't interested in us at all, just went about their business

My son and I always move snails to safety

Yes, and spiders and ants, basically if I can help any little creatures on their way I will. It's a good deed for the day and I like to think they tell their families about the human that helped them out 🤣 but I am very weird 🤣

Yes to snails 🐌 - always pick them up from paths and put them in the shrubbery

Bless you. I wish more people in the world were as crazy as you, no offence 😆

I help snails, slugs (homeless snails), worms, beetles and anything else I come across in need of a leg-up. I realise I must inevitably kill tiny creatures all the time unknowingly, but I could never knowingly do it.

I moved a MASSIVE stag beetle (nearly 4 inches long) the other day from the middle of a busy pavement to a tree stump.

@Moomindroll crushed eggshells, sand, raised bed rather than ground, plants around that they don't like (anything with thick, hairy leaves-courgettes for example).

I currently have an ant's nest in my compost heap so I've created a 'spare' compost heap (just a box) for now as I don't want me chucking teabags or heavy leftovers on top of them to harm them!

People saying they're disgusting/slimy/greedy etc-that's just the way they're meant to be. Humans are far more 'disgusting' in the harm they cause to the world and most definitely more greedy. Snails eat plants because that's how they survive. I despise the arrogance of our species sometimes-they've as much right to be here as we have.

Helped a fair few out today on my rainy walk, got them out of the footpath so they didn’t get squished.