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Infestation of Giant Snails in Peru

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A plague of giant African snails has hit the Peruvian city of Piura, and local authorities are desperately trying to Giant African snails are considered the most invasive of all snails and among the hundred most invasive species in the world. Piura's semitropical climate provides the snails with plenty of fruit, vegetable, and plant material to eat and no natural predator, so the species has thrived here. The snails can cause a host of diseases in agricultural crops and even some diseases in humans.

Added on the 29/05/2017 18:28:42 - Copyright : RT Ruptly EN

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