Q&A for How to Find a Snail

Try building snail shelters and wetting the soil to lure snails to your yard. You can also dig a pitfall trap to catch snails and other ground-dwelling creatures near your home.

Spring and fall because it's not too hot or too cold, and they can usually be found roaming around, especially if it's rainy.

Try looking in parks, school playgrounds, or even in bushes or hedges along sidewalks.

Snails can live anywhere, apart from really cold places. They usually come out during rain or in shady, damp areas.

Yes. In the morning and in the shade, they can sometimes be found.

Look under a rock, bench, or playground equitment and they could be anywhere if it just rained.

It is probably not the right temperature for them. It may be getting too cold. Or, they may have just found a better place to hide/play. Also, have you switched the time you are looking for them? Usually, after a day of rain, they will show up on wood.

The biggest snail is the African giant snail. It was recorded at 39.3 cm and its shell was 27.3 cm.

Pick the shell up and look inside. You should be able to see the snail or some sort of flap or plug. If it looks very dried out or feels light, you might have a dead snail or an empty shell.

The snails would find a safe place to hide from the storm. Nothing bad will happen to them.

Sure, but it's much easier to find them when it's raining.

You can name your snail whatever you would like to name it, whether it is a boy or girl name.

Absolutely not. Consuming beer could very easily kill a snail.

If all the snails are dead, you might just want to go to your local pet store/feed store and see if they have a bag of snails to purchase.

Yes.

The Angustopila dominikae snail is the smallest. I would not recommend keeping one, though, since there is not much info on how to take care of it.

Try purchasing a snail online. They come cheap, sometimes even free! If not, wait for a rainy day.

They have both male and female organs. You need two snails. They might start laying eggs in 24 hours.

If there is a park nearby or if you have a grassy backyard, you probably have a good chance there.

Four snails, or even two would breed heaps. Each snail produces between 200 and 400 eggs per clutch.

It's very rare to find a pet store that will sell a good, healthy snail. Even if you find a pet store that does it will probably be a giant African land snail, which are illegal in America.

Look under leaves and in swampy places. Old forests with a lot of dead trees are good too.

At Petco, snails cost about $5.00. Look at the website for more information.

Not at all dangerous. There are special sea snails that are venomous, but garden snails and the like are fine.

Don't waste your time trying to tell the males and females apart. Snails are hermaphrodites, meaning that they have the reproductive organs of both sexes on them.

They can travel 13 inches, or about 30 cm, in 2 minutes, which means 21,600 cm (or 216 meters) in 1,440 minutes (1 day). So a snail could travel about 200 meters in a day.

You will most likely find snails in gardens or places where it is moist. I suggest making a wet dirt spot somewhere in your yard. In my experience, my cat's food often caught the attention of snails, so you could try that.

Yes, you can find snails in the summer, but it is harder because most of them are hiding. If you wake up at about 6:00 - 7:00 to go out for a walk, you can find them roaming on the sidewalk.

Yes, they like humidity and areas with a lot of rainfall.

No, they will not eat bread.