Sunday, June 22, 2008

Land Snails


These were found at Vythiri resorts, Wayanad, Kerala.
Land snails fully grown ones, almost palm size, trudging along leaving behind a silvery trail. The thorough city-bred kids picnicking there crowded around the snail in total shock and disbelief, as if they were watching a dinosaur!


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21 comments:

ShannonW said...

Those are neat photos.

Gattina said...

I have never seen a snail like this so yellow !

mercè said...

Never it had seen a conch of intense yellow body. .., and as contrasts with the so dark shell!!
Is very pretty!!

This Is My Blog - fishing guy said...

Indriana: My that yellow one really leaves a trail to follow.

Anonymous said...

I have never seen such colourful snails, either. They would cheer up the garden on a dull, damp morning.

Dick said...

Oh my.....those are really big ones, great shots

Jane Hards Photography said...

Yellow snail. How odd, and what great critter snap.

Anonymous said...

I've never seen such huge and colorful snails like that before! Thanks for sharing. :-)

Horsoon said...

Yellow snail? Whoa that's something new to me!

I like your other posts too!

Lilli & Nevada said...

Not liking snails i do like the color of the first one great set of snails you captured.

i beati said...

amazing colorations sandy

ratmammy said...

wow, these look plastic!!! great photos!

Reader Wil said...

I've never seen snails like that. They are beautiful! Ours are greyish black.Good photos.

Misty DawnS said...

Those are really cool shots! I love the detail in them... the first one especially!

I've added you to the CC blogroll, I hope that's OK

Anonymous said...

wonderful captures. for me they are very unique colors for snails.

Dragonstar said...

Wonderful colours. They are much bigger than the biggest of our snails. They could eat their way through a small garden in no time!

eastcoastlife said...

What!? palm-sized!!!
And the yellow coloured snail is interesting.....

Anonymous said...

Wow! As usual something unusual to show us Indrani ! :)

I have seen snails .. whitish , greyish ..but dont ever remember seeing one so yellow !!

Gemma Wiseman said...

I am amazed at the yellow plus the chocolate looking shell! Incredible!

Unknown said...

this is benson's snail

Unknown said...

this snail is indrella ampulla