He immediately asked what does it eat? And asked if we could look them up on the computer (either he is truly interested in biology or will use any excuse to get to use the computer. I will pretend it is the first)
I asked him how this snail was different than the horned caterpillars we looked at a few days ago. He first mentioned that the snail had a shell, and that he was crawling on the ground.
I also pointed out to him his tentacles. He asked if his eyes were at the tips. I didn't know
Online we read that snails prefer dying plants, but also eat live plants and fruit. We learned that their eyes are at the tips of their tentacles.
Westley took this picture of the snail
and then he (and Will) drew the snail where we found him... crawling on our bricks and then we put him in a bug container to watch him some more, before releasing him back outside.
2 comments:
Wait until they are a little older and want to put salt on them to see what happens. It isn't pretty.
Yeah, I didn't suggest that!
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