On the outskirts of Nanning, the big African snail appears to be an idyllic killer in the daytime and at night (photo)

Recently, there are large African snails in the outskirts of Nanning, which have strong fecundity This kind of "garden killer" is one of the first 16 alien invasive species in China It is nocturnal in the daytime and does great harm to vegetables and other crops It is a class II quarantine pest in China Liang, teacher of Shajing middle school, Shajing Town, Jiangnan District, Nanning City, cultivated vegetables near the school Recently, he found a large number of unknown "snails" in the field, which are specialized in eating the stems and leaves of various vegetables These strange "snails" are very big They come out in the daytime and at night Every morning, they can catch a big bucket at any time when they go to the vegetable field Mr Liang told reporters that all the vegetables they planted were eaten by themselves, so they never sprayed pesticides Even if they found pests, they were also killed by catching them by hand Maybe it's also the reason why the "snot car snail" is rampant According to he Engineer in charge of the research of alien organisms in Guangxi ecological and resource protection station, the African giant snail is a kind of herbivorous xerophyte snail with strong reproductive capacity The recipe involves hundreds of herbs, woody plants and lianas, which do great harm to flower beds and farmland crops However, he also said that although the African giant snail has a very fast breeding speed, it has natural enemies in Guangxi and can be killed with pesticides, so the possibility of a large-scale outbreak is unlikely The picture shows the big snail in Africa.