Habitat

A wide variety of wet and shady habitats: meadows, deciduous plantations, broad-leaved and narrow-leaved woodlands, hedgerows, gardens. In Latgale, in some places masses of these snails live in the same location.

Diet

It feeds on green herbs, dead animals and faeces.

Important and interesting facts

The snail Arianta arbustorum can live up to 14 years.

If snails hatched more than 50 m distant from each other, they are considered isolated since they would not move more than 25 m (neighbourhood area 32–50 m), usually they move about 7–12 m in a year, mostly along water currents.

Information sources: latvijasdaba.lv

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