How have I never seen these amber snails with Green-banded Broodsacs in their eyes before?
Bryan Pfeiffer wrote about them, and that’s his video I clipped, but I found out about them through an interview with Pfeiffer on the lovely podcast Rumble Strip: Episode #309 - Zombie Snails. I love Pfeiffer’s conversation with host Erica Heilman. In particular, I love the contrast between the guest, a wonder-filled biologist, and the deadpan humor of the host.
“And [birds] pluck the pulsing blue broodsac out of the snail’s eye socket,” says Pfeiffer.
“Oh,” says Heilman, “So now it’s even Oedipal.”
