Giant Snails Take Barbados
By ROSEANN PILE, AP ONLINE
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP) - Ravenous giant snails that emerge from the ground by night are thriving on the tropical island of Barbados, destroying crops and prompting calls for the government to eliminate them.

Barbadian giant snails. (AP)


A nocturnal survey last weekend found hundreds of thousands of African snails - which are often about the size of a human hand - swarming the central parish of St. George, the country's agricultural heartland, where farmers complained of damage to sugar cane, bananas, papayas and other crops.
``We saw snails riding on each other's backs and moving in clusters,'' said David Walrond, chairman of the local emergency response office that organized 60 volunteers for the expedition. ``You're just crunching the shells as you're walking through.''
The volunteers sprayed government-supplied pesticides in gullies and other cool, low-lying areas where the snails are believed to breed,......

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