How Do Snails Reproduce?:
-Most Snails are hermaphrodite
-means that they possess both male and female reproductive organs
-all hermaphrodite snails can lay eggs
-although they are hermaphrodite, they still try to mate with another snail to reproduce as much as possible
-mating is initiated by one snail piercing the skin of other snail
-to stimulate the other snail into exchanging small packets of sperm
-after mating is complete, the snail will produce eggs internally, which are fertilised by the sperm that has been exchanged
-about a month after mating, the snails will then lays about hundred small white eggs in a nest underground in damp soil




Thoughts and Feelings:
I always thought that snails are just disgusting slimy creatures who hide under their shells, but after learning how they reproduce, I felt that snails are great parent as they represent father and at the same time mother. I felt that it is amazing as such a small creature can reproduce hundreds of eggs in a month at one go. Wow! I also felt that snails have the best of both world as they can be female, male or both at anytime.



Here are some videos on snails laying eggs: