Garden Snails (Helix aspersa). One clambering over another, showing eyes 'on stalks', or upper tentacles on the head.
Garden Snails (Helix aspersa). Trio at rest. Showing shell whorls from different angles. Note strong orange-yellow transverse lines on each shell, indicative of beginning of current season's new growth up to shell opening or operculum. September. Iona, Scotland.
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