If you care about your garden, you’ll probably hate snails. Learn more about your enemies below.
- Snails can live up to 25 years in the wild.

- The largest land snail was 12 inches long and weighed near 2 pounds.
- Garden snails have a top speed of 50 yards per hour (0.5 inch per second).
- Snails are almost blind and deaf, but they have a great sense of smell.
- Snails do have teeth. The average garden snail has over 14,000 of them.
- Garden snails evolved from sea snails about 600 million years ago.
- Snails and slugs are different animals. You cannot turn a snail into a slug by removing its shell.
- Marine cone snails have one of the most powerful poisons in nature.