Snail ate your mail? Why gastropods munch paper – and how to stop them

In wet weather, garden snails can seek shelter in letterboxes – and find a feast there waiting for themWe’ve all heard of snail mail – a term popularised since the advent of electronic mail – but who knew that snails eat mail?We have it on good authority from the ecologist Simon Mustoe – who said snails ate his lett…

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