• Question: How do snails reproduce?

    Asked by lamanloz to Brown garden snail on 21 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Tomeu the snail

      Tomeu the snail answered on 21 Nov 2017:


      Although we are hermaphrodites, meaning that we are both male and female at the same time, reproduction is much the same as in other animals. As a female, we produce small eggs which hatch after about two weeks.

      There is one aspect that is very different – we stab each other with ‘love darts’ when mating!

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