# Can Drosophila cause infection to snail?
**URL:** https://metastudio.org/t/can-drosophila-cause-infection-to-snail/14275
**Category:** CUBE chat
**Created:** [January 7, 2023, 6:54pm UTC](https://metastudio.org/t/can-drosophila-cause-infection-to-snail/14275 "2023-01-07T18:54:17Z")
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### Author:  [@Smiti](https://metastudio.org/u/Smiti)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2023, 6:54pm UTC](https://metastudio.org/t/can-drosophila-cause-infection-to-snail/14275/1 "2023-01-07T18:54:18Z")
đź’«Yesterday discussion started with snail that @Bhavisha CUBE Sophia, @Afida Idrisi CUBE Sophia and their **classmates from Sophia College** are culturing
đź’« They got this **giant African land snail** from their **college campus,** near **banana tree**
đź’« When they first **got 1 snail** From campus, they kept it in a **basket** and gave it some **sprouting mung to eat**
đź’« But then they saw some **fly** (that @Bhavisha CUBE Sophia was addressing as **Drosophila fly** ) that was getting **attracted to mung** and then due to the fly, snail got some **infection and it was dead**
đź’« After snail died they also **observed some small white worms** near it
💫 I think that the **small white worm was larva of the Drosophila fly** that @Bhavisha CUBE Sophia noticed when snail was kept **near the window** Then we discussed about **what would happen if we give light touch on snail’s tentacle with a piece of paper** or something
💫 As snail’s have **two big tentacle with eyes** on them, we will take **1 tentacle** as **test** and other as **control**
💫 We will give **light touch on test tentacle** and won’t touch the control tentacle
💫 So we think that **if we touch test tentacle the control tentacle won’t shrink** and test eye will shrink and will take **some time to extend again**
đź’« Like **1st time** you touch the tentacle, it will take **half an hour to come out** and in **2nd touch** it will take **20 mins** and time will decrease gradually and then it will stop responding to touches
💫 **What do you think​❓What would happen if we touch only 1 tentacle​❓ Won’t other one shrink too​❓ And after how many touches will tentacle stop shrinking​❓**
**Reference shared during chatshaala discussion** 👇🏻
Lissachatina fulica is a species of large land snail that belongs in the subfamily Achatininae of the family Achatinidae. It is also known as the Giant African land snail. It shares the common name “giant African snail” with other species of snails such as Achatina achatina and Archachatina marginata. Wikipedia
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissachatina\_fulica](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissachatina_fulica)
[https://www.google.com/search?q=Giant+african+snail&oq=Giant+african+snail&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i59l2.3192j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8](https://www.google.com/search?q=Giant+african+snail&oq=Giant+african+snail&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i59l2.3192j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
In Samoa, A. fulica is a major pest that feeds on various crops of economic importance, including papaya. This study investigated the feeding strategies of A. fulica and the damage caused to papaya through field and laboratory trials in Samoa. Unripe mature fruits were sampled to assess snail damage.
[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292985336\_Feeding\_Strategies\_of\_Giant\_African\_Snail\_Achatina\_fulica\_on\_Papaya\_in\_Samoa](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292985336_Feeding_Strategies_of_Giant_African_Snail_Achatina_fulica_on_Papaya_in_Samoa)
[https://www.wikipet.co.uk/pet-health/keeping-giant-african-land-snails-pets/#:~:text=Giant%20African%20Land%20Snails%20will,%2C%20melon%2C%20grapes%20and%20bananas](https://www.wikipet.co.uk/pet-health/keeping-giant-african-land-snails-pets/#:~:text=Giant%20African%20Land%20Snails%20will,%2C%20melon%2C%20grapes%20and%20bananas)
> [@Study on Learning & Memory in Snails](https://metastudio.org/t/study-on-learning-memory-in-snails/1839):
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> Snails are found in any garden in rainy season. We need snails (preferably giant African snail also known as Achatina fulica). Can we think of things Snail would like to eat, so that we can have snail as our pet, in school/home? Please enlist some of the things which could be food of snail, in reply section below. Can we experimentally find out which food stuffs are attractant to snail, and which are not? Please mention in reply section below, which foodstuffs you would like to test for snail…
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### Author:  [@Arunan](https://metastudio.org/u/Arunan)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2023, 2:31am UTC](https://metastudio.org/t/can-drosophila-cause-infection-to-snail/14275/2 "2023-01-08T02:31:48Z")
Can we have a few photos of these snails ? @Smiti