Florida hurries to catch fast-spreading snail invasion

New Port Richey, United States (AFP) July 25, 2022

It might not be speedy, but it's big, hungry and fast at reproducing: the giant African snail, a potential health risk to humans, has once again invaded the southern US state of Florida. Jason Stanley, a biologist with Florida's Department of Agriculture, says that the gastropod greedily "feeds on over 500 different kinds of plants." "We're concerned with that being in our environment,"