Study finds gastropods move at a snail's pace/b/veterinary-news/posts/96109 A new study of UK snail behaviour using LED and UV light tracking has found that the nocturnal creatures can explore the length of an average British garden in just one night, reaching a top speed of 1mph (metre per hour). The &#39;Slime Watch&#39; reporten-USTelligent Community 10RE: Study finds gastropods move at a snail's pacehttps://www.vetsurgeon.org/b/veterinary-news/posts/96109Fri, 30 Aug 2013 12:03:03 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:77295bf6-0564-45d0-920e-d481c173c899Tanya Leslie0<p>I always believed that because snails are herbivores and don&#39;t eat faeces, they are unlikely to be infected with lungworm, as opposed to slugs? Also, I understand that lungworm larvae are extremely sensitive to dessication and so even on the small chance some were excreted in slime, it seems unlikely that they would survive in a quickly drying slime trail? Please correct me if I&#39;m wrong.</p> <img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/aggbug?PostID=96109&AppID=5&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">