2007-01-23 07:01:43 · 11 answers · asked by Sassysaz 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
All land snails are hermaphrodites, producing both spermatozoa and ova. Others, such as Apple Snails, are either male or female. Prolific breeders, snails inseminate each other in pairs to internally fertilize their ova. Each brood may consist of up to 100 eggs.
Snails have small slits on their necks where fertilization occurs and the eggs develop.
Garden snails bury their eggs in shallow topsoil primarily while the weather is warm and damp. After 2 to 4 weeks of favorable weather, these eggs hatch and the young emerge. Snails may lay eggs as often as once a month.
2007-01-23 07:09:34 · answer #1 · answered by Amber D 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is something you really want to see. Snails and slugs have a remarkable method of mating and some, such as leopard slugs, are spectacular.
Snails and slugs are hermaphodites. They have the gonads of both sexes. When they mate, each acts as a male and a female with the other. The sex organ is often called a harpoon. It is a cord with a hard pointed tip with which the snail spears its mate. Its mate responds in kind and once harpooned, they haul in the cords to bring the bodies together where some very slimy activity takes place. Leopard slugs do all this at the end of a thread of mucus hanging from a twig. The two slugs writhe against each other in mid air. It sounds preposterous but it is true.
2007-01-23 07:14:20 · answer #2 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Slowly.
2007-01-23 07:09:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought they got over their shyness and came out of their shells?
2007-01-23 07:11:56 · answer #4 · answered by blondie 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
they mate by coiling around each other
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2007-01-23 07:09:51 · answer #5 · answered by 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
quite a lot, if you look in my garden
2007-01-23 07:13:13 · answer #6 · answered by pat e 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they change sex don't they? Hermaphrothingys
2007-01-23 07:14:25 · answer #7 · answered by Blackheath rugby wife 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
very slowly
2007-01-23 07:08:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
go on top of eachother.
2007-01-23 07:05:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
they have plenty of lube so smoothly I should think!
2007-01-23 07:10:20 · answer #10 · answered by madmynx 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋