These snails sat on the garden table in a puddle of water making love. The sexual intercourse of the snail takes about 4 to 8 hours.
Nice to know, it is a long mating dance, in which the snails also fire 'love arrows' at each other. Those arrows contain a substance that ensures that their sperm is fertilized faster in the body of the other snail.
The sperm goes back and forth, by the way, because the snail is hermaphrodite (it has both a male and female sex organ), which allows the sperm to transfer, but can also fertilize into eggs. This makes it an efficient egg producer.
Nice that you visit my shop. Nature photography is my big hobby. I like to wander around the field and preferably with my macro lens. But actually I find everything beautiful that has to do with nature. I can intensely enjoy beautiful skies, beautiful sunrises or sunsets, or.. Read more…
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