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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • There are many species which bite humans, but you are right that it’s only the females which bite.

    There are only a few species which don’t bite at all and are fully just straight up pollinators, but most species do bite something. Some are specialized and mostly feed on birds while others mostly feed on amphibians and reptiles, but most will bite pretty much anything that breathes. There are even some species which specialize in biting fish.

















  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldJust eat less avocado toast
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    Shells are artificially inflated because they aren’t valued as a “home” but rather as an “investment”

    And investment makes money, so snails with money can afford to pay more than the shell is worth as a “home”

    If a shell were not allowed to be used as an “investment” the prices would go down substantially, even if they weren’t forced to be sold.

    If they were forced to be sold, the prices would drop even further as all of a sudden there would be a flood of *people" trying to sell their shells to a limited number of slugs, who would then only choose the best deal for themselves.

    The slugs may not have been able to be approved for a loan for a $500k shell but only for a $300k shell, but there were no $300k shells available and if they were, they were complete crapheaps In a bad neighbourhood so renting a shell was the more logical choice.