Pale Banded Snail or Figuladra mattea
There is not much about it on the Internet and I don't have a reference book on Molluscs.
The shell is quite striking with alternating dark and pale bands. This shell was empty,
but I have found others here with a "resident".
This afternoon on a walk in my favourite local bushland ( Mt Petrie) this wallaby was fairly unconcerned about my presence :
Another "spotting" was this butterfly near some milkweed
It is a Lesser Wanderer or Danaus petilia .
The usual website of http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_nymphs/LesserWanderer.htm has information and better photos than I managed to take
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We get a few large snails around the place here too. I have no idea what they might be, but it's wonderful to see them slipping about the place. They don't seem to do any damage to the plants so I'm happy to leave them be. Lovely little butterfly too.
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