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Allogona profunda
Shell was about an inch or less wide.
Great Dismal Swamp - probably the largest swath of uninterrupted habitat on the USA's east coast
Spotted on Washington Ditch's boardwalk at 1pm. On center of boardwalk on info sign about black bears. Snail was beside two green inch worms. Saw one like it on the Appalachian Trail 7/10/2016 - at Dark Hollow Falls on Rose River Fire Road, Virginia: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/133...
Spotted on May 1, 2016
Submitted on May 4, 2016
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"Eastern Forest Snails are sometimes infected by a parasite called a Brainworm. Brainworms are a type of microscopic animal called nematodes. Eastern Forest Snails will eat deer poop because of the plant material in it. When they do, Brainworm larvae (baby nematodes) develop inside the snail's body. The Brainworm larvae live inside the snail, continuing to grow, until a new deer accidentally eats the snail when it is munching on grass. The larvae then grow into adult Brainworms inside the deer and lay new eggs which come out in the deer poop. The Brainworm nematode cannot live without both the snail and the deer." Source: http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecolog...