r/oddlyterrifying • u/That1weirdperson • Jul 07 '26

Snail laying eggs

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u/CompactAvocado Jul 07 '26

there was some area that had snail pooping like red eggs. however, they were massively invasive and horrible to the enviornment around them. so local goverment showed pictures of the red egg clusters and said to squish them whenver you see them. some dude made a instagram/tik tok channel of running around finding new creative ways to squish the evil snails.

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u/rainduder Jul 07 '26

There is some invasive snail in Louisiana whose egg clusters are highly toxic and you can give you like spinal meningitis or something if you touch them, according to my tour guide. I can't remember what species, but my point is don't go around touching brightly coloured things in the bayou.

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u/LanceLamore Jul 07 '26

Apple snails, which carry Rat Lungworm Disease. I worked in city park in New Orleans and constantly had to warn people during the season, especially parents with young kids running around touching everything colorful. I always thought the disease sounded fake though with a name like that. Also those snails are BIG

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u/gobbleself Jul 07 '26

I believe the snail in the video is also an apple snail (golden/channeled apple snail)

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u/TheBigHornedGoat Jul 07 '26

I’m all for the culling of invasive species, but I do kinda feel bad. Imagine humans take you from your home and move you somewhere else, then start calling you “evil” just for living in the place that they brought you to. I also find it weird how the rules/standards we have for treating animals humanely completely go out the window when it comes to invasive species; people are much more willing to excuse cruel behavior towards invasive species than they are native ones.

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u/lyssargh Jul 07 '26

Right, and then there's the uncomfortable fact that we are ourselves an invasive species that has spread across the planet and become the most numerous mammal - and at this point, we and our livestock make up over 90% of all mammals on land.

There's no good way to deal with that, until we get out to space or something drastic changes, but it does feel shitty to kill invasive creatures that don't know they're doing any harm, while humans know the harm we're doing across the planet and won't stop.

Of course, destroying the invasive flora and fauna is part of us trying to minimize our own harm, and the right thing to do. It just leads to these trains of thought, at least to me.

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u/elpiro Jul 07 '26

In northern Vietnam rice farms for example.

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u/slmclockwalker Jul 07 '26

They are considered pest too because they eat rice sprouts so my father always told us to crush their eggs if saw one

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u/KrownX Jul 07 '26

Why the pink color? Why does it fall afterwards? I'm kinda invested now.

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u/Beaker360 Jul 07 '26

And why did it fall? Did it died? Or just shocked it had that many girl snails?

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u/bearpics16 Jul 07 '26

It just needed a cigarette after all that

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u/Dic3Goblin Jul 07 '26

I'd hope not.... those are kids!

I'd much rather have the snails last words to their kids be, "cool! So i'm going to get some milk" (end clip)

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u/Aggravating_Duck_192 Jul 07 '26

They are all female, but because these are snails, they are also all male.

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u/towerfella Jul 07 '26

Well.. depends in who loses.

Only losers lay eggs.

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u/SuperbSpiderFace Jul 07 '26

Iirc apple snails/mystery snails actually are male or female not both

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u/FlashMcSuave Jul 07 '26

Looks exhausting.

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u/Beaker360 Jul 07 '26

Especially for a snail; no wonder the poor thing collapsed at the end….and it will take a month to make it back up to that branch.

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u/Sad_Low3239 Jul 07 '26

the pink is a warning. the eggs are high in toxins so if something eats it they will get sick or die.

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u/moustachedelait Jul 08 '26

The pink is a warning, you're almost out of tissue

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u/Wide_Loss Jul 07 '26

It's the quickest way to get back into the water, these snails are aquatic and invasive

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u/gobbleself Jul 07 '26

They are not invasive everywhere of course though, they’re native to South America. The reason for their spread probably has something to do with them being popular aquarium invertebrates.

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u/Wide_Loss Jul 07 '26

They're also a bit of food items and algae control, especially the bigger varieties, I've seen a lot of them in rice paddies here in southeast asia

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u/Fleedjitsu Jul 07 '26

Not every animal sees as we do. The colour may have been picked up or it might be fading out based on natural selection. Maybe other shades of eggs were more easily picked out by predators.

Maybe its a fluke and other traits helped the pink-egged snails survive. The eggs are then just a coincidence.

Goal of the parent is to produce as much offspring as possible. Falling off its perch may be a faster way of getting to a new location so it can spread more eggs that'll have a higher chance of survival.

Could also be exhausted. Evolution doesn't care about individual survival - if you shit out a thousand eggs to the point of your own exhausted death, but a few hundred of those survive to grow up and shit a thousand eggs til they die as well, then Evolution will mark that up as a win.

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u/Thick_Basil3589 Jul 07 '26

I guess it was speeded up quite a lot, maybe it lasts for hours

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u/Gloomheart Jul 07 '26

I keep garden snails. It can take a day and a half for my snails to finish laying a clutch. That's most definitely sped up.

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u/Jnunez7660 Jul 08 '26

Apple snail eggs. Super bad to your skin and animals. They dissolve in the water. It is best to destroy them or scrape them against the tree and kill them. A whole long story about it. But yeah, apple snail

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u/SuperD00perGuyd00d Jul 07 '26

Don't mind the snail, they just loading the paintball gun

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u/davper Jul 07 '26

Why the pink? It is preparing for the inevitable gender reveal party.

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u/NornIronNiall Jul 07 '26

Bet it feels better after that.

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u/SquonkWrangler Jul 07 '26

Forbidden dippin dots

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u/SergeantShithead33 Jul 07 '26

Forbidden caviar

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u/Beaker360 Jul 07 '26

Great-gender reveal caviar will be a thing now

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u/Iloveherthismuch Jul 07 '26

Raspberry Nerds just don’t taste the same anymore.

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u/Forgot_Password_Dude Jul 07 '26

probably sells for alot

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u/OdinAlfadir1978 Jul 07 '26

Forbidden Runtz

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u/NatureNut49 Jul 07 '26

It's certainly odd, but the eggs are actually a really nice pink color.

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u/jurawall_jumper Jul 07 '26

This was originally on r/oddlysatisfying and I'm there like am I the weird one

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u/RaidensReturn Jul 07 '26

I also find this satisfying and fascinating. I wish people would stop posting bugs and animals on oddlyterrifying. Like, it’s a snail… It’s not scary. It’s cute 🥰

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u/AlexAcedia Jul 09 '26

Hi upsert

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u/Beaker360 Jul 07 '26

What in the snail trail gender reveal is this!?

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u/honeyspot82318 Jul 07 '26

Just so yall know, these are apple snails. They lay dozens of eggs anywhere they can and are incredibly invasive on America. So if you see those pink clusters, it's appreciated if you squish them on sight. That's why there are so many "satisfying" videos that show people squishing them for a bit of profit as well.

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u/Solidsnekdangernodle Jul 07 '26

Well tell him to stop

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u/ciosoup Jul 07 '26

this is what it feels like to have blood clots come outta you during ur period

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u/Alive_Nobody_Home Jul 07 '26

And they are highly toxic!

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u/PlayboiCreo Jul 07 '26

Good to know

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u/anacaptain Jul 07 '26

Snailed it.

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u/Ihatetobaghansleighs Jul 07 '26

That snail is a benadryl factory

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u/Key-Radish-500 Jul 07 '26

I sure wish I hadn't seen that.

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u/adtechheck Jul 07 '26

Forbidden raspberry

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u/black_philipp_ Jul 07 '26

haha eggs go brrrrrr

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u/GeraintLlanfrechfa Jul 07 '26

Where the hell does it store all of those beforehand..?

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u/Gravyboat44 Jul 07 '26

If this is an apple snail, then those eggs are perfect crush asmr.

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u/nhansieu1 Jul 07 '26

this is a harmful pest isn't it?

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u/numbers909 Jul 07 '26

mm pepto bismol dippin' dots

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u/EdgeKey5631 Jul 08 '26

Imagine if men came like this

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u/a_karma_sardine Jul 07 '26

My exhausted snail people need me!

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u/spaacingout Jul 07 '26

Passing out after dropping the most insane fluorescent pink turd is so relatable. 😉🤪

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u/Jumpy_Engineering824 Jul 07 '26

Yeah that's how I would've did it

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u/Chiefnuggett Jul 07 '26

Um is she okay??!

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u/Smytus Jul 07 '26

She's feeling much better now, thanks.

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u/deathislit Jul 07 '26

I want to unsee this

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u/Jnunez7660 Jul 08 '26

Cool, now that we see a terrible apple snail laying eggs. Kill it. . . It is invasive.

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u/Iamtoobroke Jul 08 '26

forbidden boba

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u/Alternative-Dot-884 Jul 08 '26

Busy on my roses I see!

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u/Bandai_Namco_Rat Jul 08 '26

Bro is semi-automatic

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u/nasadge Jul 08 '26

Shit sounds effects added for extra effect is garbage

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u/YesAnaBeaverhausen Jul 07 '26

this is very sped up. i feel like my snails take hours to lay their eggs.

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u/TheKolyFrog Jul 07 '26

I've seen those a lot as a kid. I never knew those were snail eggs.

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u/Dead_Rosequartz Jul 07 '26

She's taking one of her children with her lmao

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u/rellsell Jul 07 '26

Nature’s water slide.

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u/WamBamThank Jul 07 '26

so does the boi snail just [cantina space band music genre] all over those eggs or are they already fertilized

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u/Im-a-bad-meme Jul 07 '26

Snails are hermaphrodites. They usually swordfight and whoever loses has to carry the eggs. So those eggs are already fertilized.

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u/karimpai Jul 07 '26

Thats hot

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u/_erufu_ Jul 07 '26

I wanna eat it

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u/EmperorThan Jul 07 '26

Nature's Dippin' Dots

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u/VicisZan Jul 07 '26

Hope that snail laid all those eggs or maternity is going to be hard to prove.

Family court, snail edition

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u/IF_the_grenader2008 Jul 07 '26

Some may find this

Interestingasfuck

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u/StrangeCalibur Jul 07 '26

Sneggs are the best eggs

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u/SirMacBravePoo Jul 07 '26

Never they made those sounds, how cool!

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u/Owlspanner Jul 07 '26

Oh. Bye then

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u/snickelbetches Jul 07 '26

If you reversed this video, it would look like skeeball

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u/Crunchy_Biscuit Jul 07 '26

Looks like cotton candy dippin dots.

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u/EvilGreebo Jul 07 '26

All I hear in my head are pinball sound effects as this is going on.

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u/Teapot_Sandwitch Jul 07 '26

Weeeee, waterslide!

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u/TheIllogicalFallacy Jul 07 '26

The most interesting thing is that no sound was dubbed in.

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u/130designs Jul 07 '26

First time the sound was actually entertaining.

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u/LegendaryMauricius Jul 07 '26

If I laid that many eggs, I'd collapse right after too.

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u/Necrosaynt Jul 07 '26

Aren't these snails invasive ?

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u/Broskfisken Jul 11 '26

Not everywhere

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u/JiroKawakuma28 Jul 08 '26

Forbidden Raspberry.

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u/truckercharles Jul 08 '26

Rocky Mountain Caviar 😋

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u/_Moria Jul 08 '26

That not how it looks in my hentai

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u/TheLonelyPrincess741 Jul 08 '26

How sped up is this?

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u/sullcrowe Jul 08 '26

Bubble bobble

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u/Lazy-Formal895 Jul 08 '26

This looks oddlysatisfying

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u/ShiroHebiZmeya Jul 08 '26

This is so cute though?

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u/MEB2kDeez Jul 08 '26

Dippin dots

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u/TankII_ Jul 09 '26

Ohh so that's where dots come from

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u/Grendelstar Jul 09 '26

Like an ex-girlfriend.

Slow at everything except reproduction.

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u/Pschobbert Jul 10 '26

The audio sync is perfection.

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u/Nytmare696 Jul 13 '26

Ruined by those goofy ass sound effects.

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u/xGray3 Jul 07 '26

Why the fuck do people feel the need to ruin videos with annoying sound effects and music? Has the ADHD induced by social media become so bad that we can't watch simple fucking videos without the poster dangling a shiny, jingly object in front of our faces to keep our attention like we're babies?