Reservoir Edge Spotted Covered with Pink Eggs Which Belongs to Apple Snails
If you have spotted some pink lumps along the water channels or by the edge of water bodies in some parks and reservoirs in Singapore, most likely you have spotted the egg of Golden Apple snails. Where a netizen, Anne Yong saw the bank of a reservoir has quite a stunning look where some bright pink eggs were scattered along the rocks and she said that the sight gave her goosebumps and she has not see such a large cluster of snail eggs before.
It looks like some weird pink being splattered everywhere on the stone surface like some alien invasion from outer space. However, the notorious golden apple snail (Pomacea maculata) is native to South America. The species likely entered Singapore’s natural habitats through the aquarium trade in the 1980s. This species can lay eggs in clusters of up to 1,000 eggs and this allows them to out-compete native species of apple snails, which lay eggs in smaller quantities and it can invade a rice field with 50 per cent loss and this snail are listed among the top 100 most invasive species in the world.
