White Lipped Snail
Taken at Baron's Haugh on 9th May 2023 using Panasonic Lumix TZ70 in macro mode.
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Taken at  Tyninghame Bay on 9th June 2019 using Nikon D500 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens.  Fact File
White Lipped Snail.
Species :
Order:
Family:
Local names: 		Cepaea hortensis.
Stylommatophora.
Helicidae.
Description:


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Habitat:
Food:
 		Like the grove snail (brown-lipped snail), it has considerable
variability in shell colour and banding, although the shell of the white-lipped snail is perhaps most commonly yellow, with or without brown banding.
2.5 cms.
Woods, dunes and grassland.
Feeds mainly on dead or senescent plants