The White Jade Snail is one of the snails that can be used as food.
As food, it is listed as the first of the world's four most famous dishes - snails, shark's fin, dried scallops, abalone; one of the world's seven kinds of wild game. In France, there is a "French cuisine" reputation, in Europe and the United States and other countries at Christmas, almost to the point of no snails do not celebrate the holiday. The African snail, also known as the brown cloud agate snail, is the world's largest individual land snail, the so-called alabaster snail is actually a subspecies of the African snail, weighing up to 800 grams, with a shell up to 20 centimeters long. The African snail is sometimes eaten as a food. Recently, the snail has become one of the most damaging agricultural pests in Southeast Asia.
The white jade snail, also known as the brown cloud agate snail, agate snail mollusk. The white jade snail is hermaphroditic, heterogamous mating. As long as the temperature and humidity are suitable, it can reproduce all year round. The white jade snail is a treasure of the whole body, the comprehensive utilization value is high, the demand is large, the depth of processing is promising.
Living in the field crops, forest trees and shady and humid environments, sensitive to light stimulation, preferring shady and humid environments to grow, preferring to burrow into the loose soil, more early in the morning and dusk out of the activities, slow action, a keen sense of smell. It is a wide and varied diet, just hatch out of the young white jade snail food corruption of plants, adult white jade snail food succulent plant roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits (such as a variety of vegetables, leaves, fruits and melons, etc.), often licked with the teeth and tongue to eat the tender and juicy plants, so for the plant's hostile. It hides during the day in mud holes, wall cracks, weeds or under the leaves. In winter, it hides from the cold in stone gaps or in the soil. The white jade snail is a hermaphrodite, heterozygous fertilization, more mating at night or dawn. April to June and September to November is the snail spawning season, the year can be spawned 6 to 7 times, 8 days or so the eggs can hatch out of the young white jade snail, the general life expectancy of 5 to 6 years.