Snails and angels: How do snails cope with heat, and how can angels redirect us to convenient living?
- Pranita Rao
- Jul 31
- 3 min read
What does science say about snails?
Do you know that snails dry out in the heat and can be affected if they don't protect themselves?
There are different ways that snails use to stay away from the heat. Researcher Mona Schweizer suggests that snails could protect themselves by resting in places that aren't directly exposed to solar radiation. Some species of snails can only emerge at night or early in the morning, which keeps them active only during cooler times of the day.
Here's an interesting fact: Snails can go under the ground and climb onto objects above the ground to protect themselves, too!
Snails bury themselves in soil or the ground during the day and protect themselves from intense sun rays, which is a process called estivation. Research suggests that some snail species can also climb onto tall objects such as grass blades, plant stems, trees, and poles.
A few days ago, I saw a snail hanging onto a leaf!
Clearly, it may have been trying to avoid the daylight. Although I must admit it was already 6 pm, and there wasn't much sunlight at that time. It was an unusual sight for me to see a snail stuck to a leaf. I was fascinated!
Anyway, researcher, McQuaid et al. (1979), shares that the air temperature above the ground level can be much lesser, giving snails the opportunity to cool down on objects above the ground.
Isn't that food for thought?
What do angels say to us through snails?
A few months back, I was looking for snails near a pot in my apartment premises. I would go to that spot and look for snails almost every day for weeks. The problem with this spot was that it was close to a leaky pipeline that had a lot of dried leaves under it. Basically, that area needed cleaning!
After a few weeks, I realised that one of my angels was prompting me to stop looking there. It was telling me that it was not a healthy place for me to look for snails, and that I could move to other areas in my apartment premises, which could also have snails.
I had not seen many snails in other areas, so my logical mind was not letting me believe that it was possible to find snails in other areas.
Gradually, I listened to my angel and stopped hanging out near the pot with dried leaves and a leaky pipeline. Rather, I found another place where snails hang out after rainfall.
Score! :D
Now that it is the rainy season, I only have to watch for the rains to come and don’t have to search for snails in different places of my apartment premises.
Here, the angels tell us not to put ourselves through inconvenience to get a particular result. Instead, they encourage us to believe that there other other ways of achieving our goals. Also, timing is another important aspect to achieve results in ways that are convenient for us.
So, dear reader, if you have been trying to make something happen and it is not happening, maybe you can try achieving the same goal differently? Maybe you can ask your angels to pray for you to help you in ways that are favorable to you and in times that are perfect for you :).
Please don't let your limiting beliefs come in between your intuitive self.
Until next time!
-Don't be a stranger,
Pranita Rao
Science Communicator | Author | Energy worker
P.S. - To respect the content in this post, I humbly request readers to look at snails and angels as sacred beings that are equal to human beings.
Reference: Schweizer M, Triebskorn R, Köhler Heinz‐R. Snails in the sun: Strategies of Terrestrial Gastropods to Cope with Hot and Dry Conditions. Ecology and Evolution. 2019;9(22):12940-12960. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5607
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