Weather.com - 4/24/13, Jess Baker
Destructive, disease-carrying devils are invading Florida at an alarming pace.
The Florida Dept. of Agriculture shows off the invasive African land snails in Miami-Dade County. (Image: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Giant African Snails, which can grow to be eight inches long, can can eat through plaster and stucco (yes, that means your home). They chow down on 500 different types of plants. Even worse - as National Geographic reports - the snails "eat rat feces and contract rat lungworm, which can cause a rare form of meningitis" in humans.
More than 1,000 are being caught each week in Florida's Miami-Dade county, according to Reuters. More than 117,000 have been captured since September 2011.
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