The giant African snail in the City of Miami

Foto : Gastropoda (wikimedia)

FLORIDA - Residents in the City of Miami, State of Florida, United States (U.S.), struggling to face the giant African snail. These animals become pests that damage crops and sometimes attack humans.

Gastropods is one pest that is quite dangerous in the world of agriculture. These animals can grow to reach 20 centimeters and removing the fruit of 1,200 eggs each year.

As reported by the Wall Street Journal, Tuesday (04/10/2011) Today, the Miami reportedly been attacked by thousands of these dangerous animals.

The homeowners found the animal in his yard. The body was enlarged and snails away from the shell. They also eat leaves voraciously and leaving droppings on the walls and ground.

A resident, Liliam Hernandez said, he was quite traumatic as she watched the animals length of 13 centimeters was in his yard.

U.S. Federal Government and the Ministry of Agriculture was responding to this problem by megadakan massive eradication program against the giant snails.

This is not the first time the giant snails invade Miami. In 1966 ago, a boy brought home three snails from Hawaii and store it in the terrarium (container plants) and release the boy's grandmother was a giant slug into his garden.

After that, the animal is immediately spread, and it took almost a decade for the U.S. government to eradicate. The legend says that the U.S. government disburse funds more than $ 1 million, for the campaign to eradicate the pest.

Gastropods from East Africa, but the snails can also be found in the Pacific Islands, such as in Hawaii and the Caribbean Islands. The U.S. government forbids its citizens to bring any animal into the country, without permission from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (RHS)