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Abstract
Freshwater snails play an important role in lake and river habitats. They are shelled mollusks that eat algae, and they are food for other wildlife such as fish and ducks. There are several freshwa...
Snail-dead Lake
Big, beautiful... and devoid of freshwater mollusks. That's Mooselookmeguntic Lake in the upper Androscoggin River watershed.Many of Maine's biggest lakes have water levels that are raised by dams,...
The Snail Hunt Continues
Hi Friends of Maine freshwater snails!Here's Derek Moore showing off the amphibious snail Zonitoides nitidus that he found at the edge of Pushineer Pond in northern Maine last month. Pushineer is ...
Flashback...
.. to last summer. Here's a storm coming down Chesuncook Lake.This is one of the "new" lakes in our freshwater snails dataset.This week I've compiled all of our Maine freshwater snail data, adding ...
Shell Heap
Hi and Happy New Year!It is a balmy negative 20-something outside this morning while I'm pondering our pile of Stagnicola snail specimens. With Jim C's help we have taken all sorts of measurements ...
lake of islands yields snail secrets
Hi Friends,Just back from the north shore of Millinocket Lake ("millinocket" meaning "many islands" in Abenaki), where we confirmed that there is a healthy population of pond snails. My buddy Jim C...
Fairy Surprising
Hi Folks,Hope your summer has been great, and it’s not over yet!A surprising thing happened a few weeks ago, but totell you about it, you need to know what a “fairy house” is. Yes, this doeshave so...
snail association?
Hi there supporters - hope you are having a good spring! Here in western Maine our ephemeral wildflowers are at their peak, which means that soon we’ll have blackflies, the “defenders of the wilder...