Snails and the weather

Because snails like humidity and are afraid of floods. Snails have a good appetite when they are wet, but floods will suffocate them. So snails crawl after rain to find food and avoid floods.

Snails are sensitive to the environment and are most adaptable to the environment: temperature 16 ~ 30℃(23 ~ 30℃ is the fastest growth and development); Air humidity 60% ~ 90%; The humidity of the feeding soil is about 40%; The pH value is 5 ~ 7. When the temperature is lower than 15℃, it will hibernate when it is higher than 33℃, and it may freeze or heat to death when it is lower than 5℃ or higher than 40℃.

There are 40,000 species of snails in the world. Snails are distributed in various provinces and regions of China and live in dark and humid places such as forests, shrubs, orchards, vegetable gardens, farmland, parks, temples, mountains, plains and hills. Mainly feed on plant stems and leaves, flowers, fruits and roots. It is one of the agricultural pests and the intermediate host of some livestock and poultry parasites.

Snails have high edible and medicinal value. It is rich in nutrition, delicious, high in protein, low in fat and cholesterol, rich in more than 20 kinds of amino acids, and rich in snail enzyme and SOD, among which the content of protein is 1,1,3 and 7 percentage points higher than that of turtle, pork, beef and egg respectively.

The fat content is only118.1/272.1/92 and 1/70 of soft-shelled turtle, pork, beef and eggs. Snail is a kind of terrestrial mollusk, which has high edible, medicinal and health care values. Its edible and medicinal history has been more than 2000 years.