Who Do Gastropods Eat?

Gastropods feed on very small things. Most of them scrape or brush particles from surfaces of rocks, seaweeds, animals that don't move, and other objects. For feeding, gastropods use a radula, a hard plate that has teeth.

What were gastropods predators?

Predators of land snails include beetles and their larvae, millipedes, flies and their larvae, mites, nematodes, spiders, shrews, mice, squirrels, and other small mammals. Salamanders, toads and turtles as well as many ground foraging birds are also happy to eat large numbers of gastropods.

Do gastropods hunt?

They include grazers, browsers, suspension feeders, scavengers, detritivores, and carnivores. Carnivory in some taxa may simply involve grazing on colonial animals, while others engage in hunting their prey.