Many times I’ve seen snails appear in the garden, seemingly out of nowhere, during rain. What I don’t understand is where they come from – snails don’t move very fast, so the fact that they’re suddenly there – are they there the whole time, but only come out when it rains? If not, why are they drawn to this garden – surely it’s raining everywhere else as well. What about the rain causes them to appear? And how do they disappear again afterwards? You never see them moving in or out, like you can’t see them turned away and leaving at the end, or disappearing into whatever hole they came from. How do they appear so suddenly when they move so slowly? I just want someone to give me a simple explanation pls
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Snails/slugs are averse to dry and bright areas, they mostly live underneath buildings or in dense foliage, underneath leaves and plants, around soils, grasses, that type of thing
When it rains or cools down at night causing dew their roaming range just increases a bit, since now the wet or damp ground is a bit more like what they’re used to – although they are more likely to get picked off by birds or other predators if they venture out, the pro of doing so is that they might discover another area of foliage better than the one they left
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