{"id":140089,"date":"2025-02-16T02:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T08:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=140089"},"modified":"2025-07-07T12:01:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T17:01:28","slug":"amber-snail-at-sequoyah-national-wildlife-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2025\/02\/16\/amber-snail-at-sequoyah-national-wildlife-refuge\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Snail at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to share this Amber Snail photo since last summer. Today\u2019s as good a day as any, so here it is. Pretty sure it\u2019s an Amber Snail, though I could be wrong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-140079 size-full\" title=\"Close up Amber Snail at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/land-snail-mia-mcpherson-7422.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/land-snail-mia-mcpherson-7422.jpg\" alt=\"Close up Amber Snail at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27900%27%20height%3D%27643%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20900%20643%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27900%27%20height%3D%27643%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/land-snail-mia-mcpherson-7422-200x143.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/land-snail-mia-mcpherson-7422-250x179.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/land-snail-mia-mcpherson-7422-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/land-snail-mia-mcpherson-7422-400x286.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/land-snail-mia-mcpherson-7422-600x429.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/land-snail-mia-mcpherson-7422-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/land-snail-mia-mcpherson-7422-800x572.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/land-snail-mia-mcpherson-7422.jpg 900w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Close up Amber Snail at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge \u2013 Canon R7, f8, 1\/3200, ISO 800, -0.7 V, Canon RF 100-500mm at 500m, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/stevecreek.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Steve Creek<\/span><\/a> and I were walking one of the side roads at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge when we came across this snail on a Johnson Grass stalk.<\/p>\n<p>It was breezy that day, so we took turns holding the stalk steady for each other while we photographed the snail. That worked out well.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t photograph many snails, or slugs, for that matter, but I do find them interesting subjects.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>This is what my research taught me about Amber Snails:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">There are roughly twenty species of Amber Snails in the eastern United States. The snails are considered terrestrial but have close ties to watery environments, such as stream banks, ponds, lakes, and marshes. They do not live in water but may live on plants in these areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Amber snails are hermaphrodites; they start as males and transition to females as they age. Self-fertilization can occur during adolescence. They lay transparent eggs in batches on stones, soil, or plants, which hatch in about two weeks. Amber Snails mature in approximately one year.<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00b9<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the problems I have with snails is identification. I\u2019m very good at bird IDs, same with animals. I do well with plants and insects too.<\/p>\n<p>Snails? Not so much.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you know the species identification of this Amber Snail, feel free to let me know. I&#8217;d appreciate it, deeply. I love to learn.<\/p>\n<p>Life<em> is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n<p>Mia<\/p>\n<p>Click <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/aquatic-life\/\">here<\/a><\/span> to see more of my aquatic life photos.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u00b9 <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/content.ces.ncsu.edu\/amber-snails\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Amber Snails PDIC Factsheets NC State Extension<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to share this Amber Snail photo since last summer. Today\u2019s as good a day as any, so here it is. Pretty sure it\u2019s an Amber Snail\u2014though I could be wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13973,13974,16237],"tags":[16238,14190,13984,4142,16239,3747,14040,8843,8834,2315],"class_list":["post-140089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oklahoma","category-sequoyah-national-wildlife-refuge","category-snails","tag-amber-snail","tag-bottomland-hardwood-forest","tag-bottomlands","tag-close-up","tag-family-succineidae","tag-grass","tag-land-snail","tag-snail","tag-snails","tag-summer-3"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/land-snail-mia-mcpherson-7422.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-Arv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":114007,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2023\/06\/27\/some-kind-of-land-snail-at-sequoyah-nwr\/","url_meta":{"origin":140089,"position":0},"title":"Some Kind Of Land Snail At Sequoyah NWR","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"June 27, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Eagle-eye Steve spotted this land snail at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge nearly hidden in the Johnson Grass. 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