A Lively Snail

Many may say,  Ray, there is no such thing as  a lively snail.  Yet even the most jaded of snail watchers might admit that this snail could be more lively than that snail.  Because this snail is a lively snail. 

Hmm.  This may be the only snail featured on this venue ever.  Near as Ray can figure out, it is, like  much of our vermin fauna, an introduced species, from the Mediterranean, Eoburnia vermiculata.  Here it is, thrashing around in the little bluestem.

One reason we never publish our snail pictures, besides the fact that we hardly ever see snails at the CB, is, snails are really hard to get entirely in focus.  Like this one was shot at F16 with flash.  And while it is true than the snail is mostly in focus, this shot only shows a lateral view and is missing one antennae. All the shots that feature two antennae are out of focus somewhere.  Course, this is a mighty big snail so there may be no real solution other than photo stacking for subjects similar to giant, lively snails.