Photo: Flotsam and leftover sea life

Aliens invade Florida

Here’s an article about an emerging problem involving an invasive species of snails. These snails (Giant African Land Snail) originally come from Africa. They are highly confiscated at airports because they are typically smuggled in for the pet trade. In the wild, they don’t have native predators so they can explode in numbers. They’re pests because they like to devour stucco in buildings for the calcium content since this helps them grow their shells.

I usually have a pretty good way to deal with such pests. However, these snails can carry disease, like rat lungworm that can cause meningitis in humans.