The French snail is a world famous dish, but the African snail is famous. The African giant snail once invaded the United States, but also made Chinese foodies dare not mouth, as a multinational boycott of invasive species, but it is the food of Africans, eating 15 million kilograms a year!
Compared with the French snail, the African large snail can be described as a veritable large, the adult shell length is generally 7-8 cm, the largest can grow to more than 20 cm. One is a world-famous dish, a fragrant dish in the market, and the other is a harmful species that many countries avoid.
The reason why the African snail can grow so big is related to its ability to eat. It eats not only plants, but also paper and companions, and is even able to nibble and digest cement, harming more than 500 crops.
Not only that, it is similar to bats, but it is also an intermediate host for disease transmission, especially the transmission of tuberculosis and eosinophilic meningitis, so don't look at its size, even Chinese foodies dare not mouth.
The African giant snail, one of the first 16 invasive alien species in China, has appeared many times in southern China. Some people have asked curiously: Can you eat it? Can I raise it? After all, this thing is really big, small African snails are as big as eggs, and foodies look at dc salivate.
However, African large snails can not only not be eaten, raised, or even touched by hand, which is extremely harmful to the environment and can also spread diseases. Even vegetables and fruits that have been crawled by African snails cannot be eaten directly.
The most frightening thing is the terrifying reproductive capacity of the African giant snail. African large snails can lay eggs 4 times a year, can lay 30 to 700 eggs at a time, or hermaphrodite, allogeneic mating, and have amazing reproductive ability.
In 1966, an American child brought three snails from Hawaii back to Miami, and within seven years, they had become a huge population of 17,000. The United States spends millions of dollars a year on snails, but the rate of extinction still cannot keep up with their reproduction rate.
It is this species that makes people feel away from the wind, but it is a delicacy in Africa. Because the African giant snail has a lot of meat and rich nutritional value, it is called "golden meat" by locals. Africans are said to eat 15 million kilograms of African snails a year.
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