Invasive species should be familiar to Chinese. However, many regions, including China, are deeply affected by invasive species. Because invasive species have no freedom to grow natural enemies in the new environment, they will multiply rapidly in the local area, causing damage to the local ecological environment and causing certain impacts on the economy.
Most people in China are familiar with invasive species, probably because crayfish and bullfrogs are edible invasive species. However, there are some other creatures in China, such as some large snails that have been "smuggled" over, which are now rampant in China, and even The Guangdong people can't say anything about it.
This invasive species is the African giant snail, which is said to have come with black people who had been illegally smuggled in. They were attached to ships and crossed thousands of rivers and mountains to Come to China. In China, because there are no natural enemies, they reproduce very quickly, with 30-700 eggs laid each time.
African snails are harmful to agriculture, their food includes crops, fruit trees, vegetables and other plants, when hungry, even the corpses of their companions are not spared, and even cement he can give you to eat, so you can understand how harmful he is! Many of the farmers persecuted by the African snail are miserable, but there is nothing they can do about it.
However, some people will ask, can't this thing be eaten, and isn't it okay to eat them? Indeed, they are inedible. When they came to China, Some Chinese experts invited them to the research institute to "drink tea.". Studies have shown that this snail carries many parasites and pathogenic bacteria, if eaten, it will cause great harm to the body, And Cantonese people will not be able to mouth it when they see it.
In Africa, however, Africans love to eat this big snail. Although it is said that it can be eaten, it must be ensured that it is fully cooked, which can also scare the germs in its body. However, this is definitely not safe, even if it is cooked, I don't know if it is completely dangerous, so don't eat it well. This kind of African snail, I don't know if you have seen it?