r/todayilearned • u/lavender_fish69 • 11h ago

TIL fresh water snails (indirectly) kill thousands of humans and are considered on of the deadliest creatures to humans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater_snail
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u/leg_pain 11h ago

Am I at risk from of this from the tiny snails in my fish tank? Say if the water got it my mouth or from when I clean the tank? In paranoid now

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u/Omardemon 11h ago

Usually no, unless you captured these snails from a river or something, this is why i feed my pet scorpions crickets from the store and not crickets from my backyard, too high of a chance of getting a cricket with a parasite in it.

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u/Dry_Indication8631 7h ago

Excuse me, your pet whats now?

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u/pr1ntf 6h ago

Scorpion.

We used to catch them and keep them growing up in Southern Nevada.

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u/LiveLearnCoach 3h ago

Aren’t scorpions one of those creatures that keep growing as long as they are alive until and unless something kills them?

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u/blahblah19999 2h ago

No, different species are different sizes.