Investigator D. Edwards writes in reference to a citation we presented in mini-AIR 2004-07. The citation is:
“http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~fwelter/flyingsnails.htm”>Flying Snails — How Far Can Truncatellina (Pulmonata: Vertiginidae) Be Blown Over the Sea?” C. Kirchner, R. Kr?tzner and F.W. Welter-Schultes, Journal of Molluscan Studies, vol. 63, 1997, pp. 479-87.
Investigator Edwards offers this:
Here in bosky Penge (South-East London) we don’t wait for the wind to encourage molluscan aeronautics. The snails in our garden (Helix aspersa) are given free flying lessons over the fence. We know the lessons are effective because they don’t come back.
Yours strato-gastropodally,
David Edwards.
Further thoughts about flying snails appeared in the June 22 Improbable Research newspaper column.