well that was what researchers were trying to find out,
when they painted hundreds of snails with UV paint and stuck LED lights on some of them,
researchers from the Ecology department at the University of Exeter lead by Dr. Dave Hodgson created an experiment to track the movement of
snails through a garden at night, after painting them the team then tracked their speed and patterns of
movement at night,
apparently lungworm infections are potentially fatal in dogs and nobody is exactly sure how the organisms make the leap from snails to dogs in the first place, though the assumption is accidental ingestion, and as a byproduct created this snail storm,
You can watch the awesome time-lapse of glow-in-the-dark
snails starting around 2:15 in the video, for more information about lungworms have a look here, Be Lungworm Aware! and the answer was, that fastest make about 1 meter an hour.
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