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When my daughter was in primary school they had a project on bringing up snails. This was some 14 years ago, some how we ended up with snails in a fish tank in the back garden during this project.

In time they escaped and lightly populated the back garden.

Tonight with our small heat wave here in Aberdeen. I have came home to some 15 plus of them, all over the front wall of the house!!

Cornu aspersum, known by the common name garden snail, is a species of land snail. As such it is a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicidae, which include the most commonly familiar land snails. Of all terrestrial molluscs, this species may well be the most widely known. In English texts it was classified under the name Helix aspersa for over two centuries, but the prevailing classification now places it in the genus Cornu.

Cornu aspersum is native to the Mediterranean area and Western Europe, but whether deliberately or accidentally, humans have spread it to temperate and subtropical areas worldwide. The snail is relished as being edible, but it is widely regarded as a pest in gardens and in agriculture, especially in regions where it has been introduced accidentally and where snails are not eaten as a rule.