re: Found these pink looking eggs on a sea wall - anyone know what they are? (PIC INSIDE)

Muscadines.

We have been seeing the snail eggs on the Diversion for 4-5 years.

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I found these things the other day. What are they?

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That's the larval stage of wine.

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That's the larval stage of wine.

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Can I eat these things?

I live in downtown St. Pete and these things are creeping over the fence separating my neighbor and me. I figured they were grapes but I’ve never seen grapes growing around here.

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Didn’t some kid die from rat lungworm by eating a slug as a dare not long ago?

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Yep. I have seen some in local ponds and in the Bayou Black area. Very invasive and probably here to stay since cajuns can't eat them.
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Kill it with fire.

Awesome.

How much of an undertaking would that be? Could I do it with regular household items?

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Apple snail

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Many kinds of snails are invading ecosystems all over the world, but the apple snail (Pomacea canaliculata) has a unique advantage: Almost no predators will eat its eggs. That's because the bright pink objects (pictured) are filled with a neurotoxin that scares off every predator except for red fire ants. Now, researchers have discovered that the neurotoxin, called PcPV2, is unusual for animals. First, it's a so-called AB toxin, which is used by plants and bacteria. And second, the apple snail creates it in an unprecedented way, combining a pair of molecules that resemble those belonging to the immune system of other animals. As for the embryonic snails, cocooned in a toxic egg, they are equipped with enzymes that can degrade the neurotoxin and use it for nutrition during development, researchers reported last week in PLOS ONE. No one knows how the ants survive.

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Kill it with fire....................... ants!

TIL! Thanks, now I've got some ammo when my wife asks why I read the OT so much....Placebeaux potentially saved us from rat lung!