Wading along in a pretty dark swampy area next to a small stream, I came across these pretty pink eggs. I had never seen anything quite like them.
I thought they were maybe some kind of rare swamp-dweller’s future offspring.
When I arrived home, still in wading boots and overalls and all, I looked up these eggs in Google Lens before I jumped into the shower.
Only to find - they are snail eggs! And not very welcome ones, either, called Golden Apple Snail. Pretty eggs and pretty name for a creature that can cause such havoc.
Gone are my wild and woolly dreams of finding an exotic swamp-dweller!
Yes, they really stood out in that sludgy wetland. I honestly didn’t even think of a snail.
They’re the eggs of a rather disdained and frowned-upon snail called the Golden Apple snail.
They’re considered a right royal pest, apparently.